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Austrians are electing a new Parliament, four months after a corruption scandal brought down ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party. Some 6.4 million voters aged 16 and up are eligible to cast ballots for Sunday’s election. The

The family of one of Egypt’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, says security forces have re-arrested him while he was under probation. His mother, Laila Soueif, tells The Associated Press that Abdel-Fattah was arrested on Sunday from Dokki police station

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe has been laid to rest in the rural village where he was born, three weeks after his death at the age of 95. He was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, about 90km

An auction house in Switzerland is set to sell 25 luxury cars including Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, and Lamborghinis that Geneva authorities seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a money-laundering probe. Swiss authorities say the sale Sunday by auctioneer Bonhams

A U.S-based Ghanaian physician, Michael Nana Baako, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison by a U.S Court for the federal charge of passport fraud. Baako, 50 years, was a physician who practiced in hospitals in Maryland and maintained