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The White House is announcing that the Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration would

Thieves stole priceless royal artifacts in a daring raid on a Swedish cathedral before escaping by speedboat, police said. The thieves made off with jewels belonging to former Swedish monarchs Karl IX and Kristina from the Strängnäs Cathedral to the west

Three people were killed in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare after troops opened fire on rioting opposition supporters, police say. The government says the army was deployed in central Harare to help police restore order. The opposition MDC Alliance condemned the crackdown, saying

US President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, labelling them a “total joke”. His tweets come after a spokesman for the brothers’ network accused the White House of stoking divisiveness. Mr Trump said

Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said he was “winning resoundingly” but the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said official results were yet to be announced. Chamisa, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said on Tuesday that his party had the

More than 1,500 people have died so far in 2018 trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that this is the fifth consecutive year that the grim benchmark has been

Long queues have formed at polling stations in Zimbabwe in the first since general election since long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted. Foreign observers have hailed the election as an opportunity for Zimbabwe to break with its repressive past. The presidential

An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for their role in the violence that erupted after President Mohammed Morsi’s removal in 2013. The group, including leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a mass trial of more