South African Airways (SAA) has announced it was halting daily direct flights between Cape Town and London to avoid losses amid shrinking demand.
Somalia has begun training fighters to fill the void created by having an army that comprised mostly a jumble of militia groups.
Think tank Sipri says military spending failed to rise last year for the first time since 1998 but the global nuclear threat remains strong.
Four African migrants have been hospitalised after a deadly arson attempt on a Jerusalem building in which they were living.
President Bashar al-Assad has said that his government is faced with a foreign plot to destroy Syria.
President Bashar al-Assad has said that his government is faced with a foreign plot to destroy Syria.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is to deliver a speech to the strife-torn country’s new parliament, state television reported.
The International Criminal Court has heard the worst post-poll violence in Cote d’Ivoire was committed by forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo.
Hundreds of demonstrators have occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square in protest against sentences handed down to Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs.
Two MP’s from a neo-nazi party in Greece have been arrested in a second incident where the party’s leaders have been accused of attacks on foreigners.