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Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala with an iron fist in the 1980s and was accused of genocide at the peak of its long civil war, died on Sunday at the age of 91. One of...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said. Malala made a surprise return visit to Pakistan last week more than five years after she was...

Mymensingh Municipality, a town with a 91.315sqk area and population of 4,71,858, has been upgraded as the country’s 12th City Corporation. A proposal to extend the boundaries of the Mymensingh Municipality, established in 1869, did not...

A Dhaka University student died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after he was found ‘critically injured in unknown circumstances’ on the campus, police said. Shabagh Police Station Inspector Zafar Ali Biswas identified the deceased as Mohammad...

Ian Khama, a retired army general, stepped down as president of Botswana on Saturday, handing the diamond-rich country to his deputy after a decade at the helm. Mokgweetsi Masisi becomes only the third leader to take...

Sierra Leone voted on Saturday in a poll delayed by fraud allegations to choose a successor to President Ernest Bai Koroma who leaves a country still struggling after the Ebola epidemic. The face-off between opposition leader...

Venezuela’s government broke its silence about a riot and fire in a police station’s cells that killed dozens of prisoners on Wednesday, issuing a statement on Friday night sending condolences to relatives and promising an investigation....

A fire broke out at the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah early on Saturday, destroying warehouses filled with cooking fuel and foodstuffs, port workers said. They told Reuters that, as of 1100 GMT, fire trucks had...

Dozens of Palestinian youths gathered by the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, though the area remained mostly quiet, a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years. In the...

Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi can be seen in a video adjusting his t-shirt after getting out of security checks with his jacket and a trolley bag. Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has been abased...