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By: AFP African leaders were urged Saturday to step up and tackle the myriad conflicts and political crises blighting the continent of 1.4 billion people. Opening the African Union's two-day summit, AU Commission...

BANJUL Gambia's president has warned the international community against interfering in the country's political crisis, on the eve of talks with west African leaders who will urge him to step aside. On state-run television late Tuesday, Yahya Jammeh lashed out at "an unprecedented level of foreign...

By Ricardo Lopez She filed reports of threats, bigotry with two Washington, D.C., agencies. State Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, said Monday that she reported to Washington, D.C., authorities an incident from last week in which she said she was harassed and threatened by a cabdriver. In a...

A further worsening of relations between Moscow and the United States is in the interests of neither side, Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of Russia's Security Council, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. "As recent history shows, relations between Russia and the USA will sooner or...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, voicing hope that joint work will resolve the crisis in bilateral ties, the Kremlin said Wednesday.  President Putin sent a telegram to Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory in the US presidential...

Horndiplomat-More than a decade after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the country continues to become increasingly unstable. On Sunday, nearly 300 people were killed in the worst bombing since the invasion began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XS2zIUDlGI SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

BRUSSELS -- European Union nations pressed ahead Tuesday with plans to boost military co-operation as Britain vowed to oppose the creation of an EU army or headquarters. With Britain leaving the EU, France and Germany have been spearheading moves to boost Europe's capacity to run...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday urged Islamic nations to unite and show solidarity with each other. In an interview with the Saudi Arabia-based television channel, Rotana, Erdoğan said despicable developments are being formed against the Islamic world. "Turkey and Saudi Arabia are being targeted. We...

butted out, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki thinks Africa is in trouble. The continent needs progressive leaders and such leaders are simply nowhere to be found, he says. Mbeki made the remarks at a question-and-answer session organized for the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute by the Thabo...

The Burma-Shave-style signs lining the street next to Steve Sorensen’s white clapboard house don’t mince words. “Take your Muslim Somalian diaspora and put it where the sun doesn’t shine!!!” the cheery red-and-white messages proclaim. Sorensen, a retired former federal VA worker who’s lived in St. Cloud...