{Hill’s horseshoe bat, which conservationists feared was extinct, discovered clinging to life in Nyungwe rainforest.}

{The former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s, has died at the age of 94 after contracting Covid-19.}

North Korea remains totally free of the coronavirus, a senior health official in Pyongyang has insisted, despite mounting scepticism over the claim as known cases of infection topped one million worldwide.

Final years in power were characterized by financial collapse, surges of violent intimidation and a vicious internal power struggle

Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has resigned after days of defying orders from the ruling African National Congress to leave office and on the eve of a no-confidence vote in parliament.

The latest United Nations sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade, the country’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, threatening to punish those who supported the measure.

Bruce McCandless, the Nasa astronaut who was first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died aged 80.

The United Nations body’s debate and vote highlighted for a second time in a week the international isolation of the United States over the Jerusalem issue

{Gervais Ngombwa, who claimed he was a victim in 1994 genocide against Tutsi in order to gain refugee status, was actually ‘an active participant’, Iowa judge said.} A Rwandan man who lied to gain entry into the US after helping slaughter scores of people during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi must serve 15 years behind […]

{Exiled journalists tell of how decades of balanced post-conflict reporting is being dismantled by President Nkurunziza.} As a journalist, it is Aline’s job to report on her country and president, but she doesn’t know how to without getting killed. Pierre Nkurunziza is Burundi’s fearsome, undemocratic president who stands accused of inciting ethnic tensions while dismissing […]