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The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won South Africa’s parliamentary elections with 57.5 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said, announcing the official results.  Aljazeera reports, Saturday’s win assured a sixth straight term in power for the ANC. But the

An attack on a Catholic church in Burkina Faso, potentially linked to extreme Islamist violence in the country, has killed six people. Al Jazeera reports that a group of between 20 and 30 armed attackers killed a priest and five worshippers on

Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters. Three weeks ago in

US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping could meet next month on the sidelines of the G20 summit to hash out their differences on trade, but no new talks are scheduled, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Sunday. The

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity and Iran will hit U.S. troops if Washington makes a move, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday,