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Theresa May faces a crunch cabinet meeting later as she tries to win colleagues’ support for a draft Brexit agreement between the UK and EU. Senior ministers will gather in Downing Street at 14:00 GMT amid calls to reject the deal

The United Nations is warning that the mass eviction of Congolese refugees, over 330,000 of them, from Angola may trigger a humanitarian crisis. Last month alone, hundreds of thousands of people who are originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo were

Tanzanian authorities have deployed the military to buy cashew nuts from farmers to solve a row over prices. President John Magufuli had given traders a Monday deadline to buy the crops at government-approved rates. Farmers had halted sales of their harvests

A member of a Saudi assassination squad phoned a superior shortly after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and told him “tell your boss” their mission had been accomplished, The New York Times reported. Citing three people familiar with a recording of Khashoggi’s killing collected

Amid growing anger over civilian casualties from the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes, at least 150 people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes between government loyalists and rebels in Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeida, medics and military sources said yesterday.

The Israeli military bombed the studios of Hamas’s television station in the Gaza Strip on Monday after launching at least five non-exploding missiles nearby as warnings to evacuate, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. There was no immediate word of any casualties

Ethiopia’s attorney general accused members of the security service of carrying out a grenade attack on a rally attended by the prime minister, as he announced details of a string of investigations that struck at the heart of the establishment. Members

Turkey on Monday slammed the latest comments made by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as “unacceptable,” after he accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of playing a “political game” in connection with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. “We find it unacceptable