Deputy Africa editor
BBCAged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan’s western region of Darfur.
“I was bleeding on the way,” she told the BBC, before hastening to add…
Four employees of a satirical magazine in Turkey have been arrested for publishing a cartoon that appears to show the Prophet Muhammad – a sacred religious figure whose depiction is forbidden in Islam.
Turkey’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya…
Local sources in Iraq early on Tuesday reported that several explosions were heard in Kirkuk.
Two rockets hit the military section of Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq, injuring two personnel, India Today reported.
A third rocket struck a house…
Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, a member of the Pakistani Senate, described Ayatollah Khamenei as a religious leader and a Marja (religious authority), who is also a political leader.
Religious authorities issued a fatwa (religious decree) that…
About 1,200 children are being urged to undergo testing for infectious diseases after a Melbourne childcare worker was charged with a string of offences including child rape.
Joshua Dale Brown was arrested in May and faces 70 charges, with police…
After his daughter fell from the fourth deck of a 14-deck Disney Cruise ship on Sunday afternoon, a father jumped into the ocean to try to save her, according to…
Donald Trump’s move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday.
A third of those at risk of…
A 30-year-old man who is due to stand trial for the fatal stabbings of four roommates in a small Idaho college town will plead guilty as part of a deal with state prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, according to US media.
Latah County…
US President Donald Trump says Washington is “not going to stand” for the long-standing prosecution of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a host of corruption charges.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social…
