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Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient villa in a Pompeii suburb. Pompeii archaeological park head Massimo Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA that the villa belonged to a high-ranking

The “overwhelming majority” of women and older girls who passed through Libya as migrants reported being gang-raped by traffickers or having witnessed others taken away to be sexually abused, the United Nations said Thursday in a report based on hundreds of

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s long-delayed presidential election has been postponed for another week. The vote, scheduled for Sunday, is now due to take place on 30 December, the Electoral Commission said on Thursday. A delay in deploying voting materials to

Violent anti-government protests broke out Thursday for the second consecutive day in a string of cities across much of Sudan, including the capital Khartoum where police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters and an eastern city where at least

Turkey will continue to stand by Iran in the face of ‘unjust’ U.S. sanctions which jeopardize regional stability and security, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. “There are so many

US. President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will will retire “with distinction” at the end of February, new chief to be named shortly. Trump previously referred to him as “sort of a Democrat.” Mattis, seen

Uganda’s president elicited a flurry of remarks on Twitter after he wrote that Miss Africa should have shown “African beauty in its natural form” instead of “wearing Indian hair.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday shared a picture alongside Miss World

Six Ghanaians have been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) for duping several companies to the tune of £1 million, according to the City of London Police. Three of the suspects were sentenced on 13th December, 2018, at Southwark Crown Court