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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 06:22
The United States offered Niger two military surveillance planes Wednesday as attacks by suspected Boko Haram extremists continued in the country's south-east region bordering Nigeria.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 08:15
U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 06:00
One policeman has died and 23 were injured in clashes with protesting workers demanding the reinstatement of fired employees at a Nicaraguan gold mine.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 06:46
Somali journalists and rights groups on Tuesday condemned the arrest of two colleagues and the closure of a key television station by the government.
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 06:28
Russia's launch of airstrikes in Syria is prompting discussions within the Pentagon about whether the U.S. should use military force to protect U.S.-trained and equipped Syrian rebels if they come under fire by the Russians.
Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 06:13
Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State militants out of villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday, in an offensive backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 06:48
Colombia will shift its focus in the fight against illegal drugs by funding the planting of legal crops, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday as the government halts aerial fumigation in one of the world's top cocaine producers.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 06:29
Burkina Faso's coup leader said Tuesday he would abide by a deal reached with top African mediators, but warned his men would defend themselves if attacked after the army entered the capital.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 06:23
Protesters stormed the prosecutor's office of the southern Mexico state of Guerrero on Monday to protest the handling of the disappearance of 43 students, days before the case's first anniversary.
Monday, September 21, 2015 - 06:36
The former head of Mexico's federal prisons and the ex-director of the Altiplano penitentiary that drug capo Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from are among 13 additional people arrested in the jail break, an official with the federal Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.