French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande headed into the last round of his battle with Nicolas Sarkozy, with both candidates under threat.
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will try to put two attempted rape accusations behind him in a television interview.
Monaco’s royal house invited the population of its tiny realm to join them in celebration as the Grimaldi clan prepared to embrace Charlene Wittstock.
Monaco has begun three days of royal wedding festivities marked by glamour, romance, rumours, suspense, intrigue and, yes, The Eagles.
The Middle East boiled with anger as protestors trying to topple more of the region’s rulers staged fresh mass demonstrations after Friday prayers
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/ 27 January 2011
SA set out its stall at the Davos meeting of the global elite on Wednesday, proud to be attending for the first time as a member of the Bric stable.
A trio of West African leaders tried on Tuesday to persuade Côte d’Ivoire’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo to stand down.
United Nations human rights officials said on Thursday that at least 173 people have been killed in Côte d’Ivoire in the past week.
Defiant Côte d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo dug in his heels on Tuesday under a barrage of international criticism.
Côte d’Ivoire leader Laurent Gbagbo ordered UN and French peacekeepers out of the country on Saturday, accusing them of backing rebel fighters.
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/ 19 January 2010
Security forces struggled on Tuesday to control looters in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
Nigerian separatist guerrillas released three kidnapped oil workers — two Americans and a Briton — on Monday after holding them hostage for more than a month, according to a state government spokesperson. "They’re all here. They’re all OK," the Delta State spokesperson said by telephone from his government’s local offices in Warri, an oil port 340km southeast of Lagos.
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/ 24 October 2005
Nigeria began three days of national mourning on Monday as investigators sought to find out why a passenger airline had crashed to earth and been ripped apart, killing all the 117 passengers and crew on board. Emergency workers continued with the gruesome task of disentangling the shredded corpses of the passengers from the widely scattered wreckage of the Boeing 737 jet.
Washington’s pointman on Africa is to meet Nigerian leaders on Thursday, making a high-level visit at a time when African oil is more than ever in the thoughts of US strategic planners.