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The United Nations's MONUSCO mission to the country is one of its biggest deployments with some 16,000 blue helmets
World
08.08.2024
UN peacekeepers should progressively withdraw from the DR Congo by the end of 2022 at the earliest, a strategic review said Wednesday, in the first tentative timeline to exit a country grappling with militia violence and Ebola.
Members of the LeBaron family mourn at the site of an attack in Sonora, Mexico where nine women and children were killed
World
08.08.2024
Mexican authorities said Wednesday they believe a drug cartel called "La Linea" was responsible for the murder of nine Mormon women and children, saying the massacre was committed with American-made ammunition.
Around 100,000 pangolins are plucked from the wild each year in Africa and Asia, according to conservation group WildAid
World
08.08.2024
Pangolins are under threat from illegal trafficking networks, conservationists said Wednesday, as they urged southern African countries to step up protection of one of the world's most smuggled mammals.
Nikos Michaloliakos is one of nearly 70 defendants, who each face between five to 20 years in prison over the 2013 killing of rapper Pavlos Fyssas and other alleged crimes by Golden Dawn members
World
08.08.2024
The leader of Greece's notorious neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn on Wednesday denied any responsibility for the murder of an anti-fascist rapper, in the politician's first appearance at a long-running trial involving dozens of defendants.
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage kicked off a nationwide tour for the 2019 general election in Workington on Wednesday
World 08.08.2024
Hot on the heels of Mondeo Man and Worcester Woman comes Workington Man -- the swing voter who British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to convince to win next month's election.
Zimbabwe civil servants marched in a rally against low wages in Harare, heavily guarded by anti-riot police
World 08.08.2024
Less than 50 Zimbabwe civil servants turned up for a planned protest against hyperinflation on Wednesday, most lacking money for transport because of the crisis and fearing police retaliation.
Algerian judges and prosecutors held protests in late October over what they see as executive interference with the judiciary
World 08.08.2024
Striking Algerian judges returned to work Wednesday, a day after their main union announced an end to a 10-day walkout that has paralysed the judicial system.
Late Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is seen in a video released in April 2019 by Al-Furqan media
World 08.08.2024
The new leader of the Islamic State group is "a nobody" with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday.
The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday
World 08.08.2024
The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday.
Map showing major protests areas in Iraq since October 1
World 08.08.2024
Iraqi security forces fired live ammunition at protesters in the capital on Wednesday as tensions rose elsewhere in the country between persistent anti-government demonstrators and paralysed politicians. 
Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) Director-General Decio Oddone speaks during government auction for offshore oil fields
World 08.08.2024
Brazil's auction of drilling rights to four deep-sea oil fields raised a disappointing $17.3 billion on Wednesday, officials said, well short of expectations for the highly-anticipated mega sale. 
Niantic founder and chief executive John Hanke speaks during an interview in San Francisco on a plan to turn the world into a giant game board in a mix of fantasy and reality.
World 08.08.2024
Pokemon Go maker Niantic on Wednesday moved closer to turning the world into a giant game board in a fun mix of fantasy and reality.
Greece is being urged to move migrants from overcrowded island camps to the mainland
World 08.08.2024
The European Commission on Wednesday urged Greece to speed the processing of asylum-seekers as a jump in new arrivals in its already overcrowded island camps pushed the situation to "unbearable" levels.
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