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A car bomb struck near a religious centre in central Somalia on Monday and armed gunmen stormed inside to attack a controversial cleric, a local elder and the Al Shabaab group said. “A suicide car bomb rammed into the centre of

King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander on Saturday co-piloted a commercial flight from Amsterdam to Istanbul. The 51-year-old royal, who called flying his hobby, was behind the yoke during the Dutch flag carrier KLM’s KL1613 flight to Atatürk Airport. Willem-Alexander piloted a

Up to 145 pilot whales died in a mass stranding on a remote New Zealand island at the weekend, authorities said on Monday. The Department of Conservation (DOC) said two pods of pilot whales were stranded on a beach on Stewart

Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries. U.S. agents shot the gas, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Children were

The Ukrainian navy said Russia on Sunday opened fire on and seized three of its ships off the Black Sea coast of Crimea, sparking alarm among Kiev’s Western allies and raising fears of military escalation. The unprecedented incident occurred in the

Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, arrested last Monday on suspicion of financial misdoing, has denied the allegations against him, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Sunday. Ghosn, who has not spoken publicly, has told investigators that he had no intention of

Warplanes struck opposition territory in northwestern Syria on Sunday for the first time since Turkey and Russia agreed to create a buffer zone in the province of Idlib in September, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The U.K.-based monitoring group

Twenty-nine people died and more than 60 are feared drowned after a pleasure boat sank on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police said Sunday. The vessel carrying close to a hundred revellers sank during bad weather on Saturday in the latest deadly incident