DAKAR, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dengue fever has killed at least 18 people in Burkina Faso since August in the worst recorded outbreak of the disease to hit the West African nation, an aid agency said on Thursday. The mosquito-borne virus ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A car bomb attack Thursday targeting a government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana killed at least two people and wounded 33 others, a senior cabinet official said. Energy Minister Berat Albayrak condemned the ...

ISTANBUL, Nov 24 (Reuters) - An explosion killed two people and wounded more than 30 outside the governor's office in the southern Turkish city of Adana on Thursday, weeks after the United States warned of attacks by what it called extremist groups.

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — His Cabinet beginning to take shape, President-elect Donald Trump is offering a Thanksgiving prayer for unity after "a long and bruising" campaign season. "Emotions are raw and tensions just don't heal overnight," the incoming ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley has developed a national reputation as a racial conciliator who led the charge to bring down the Confederate flag at the Statehouse and guided South Carolina through one of its darkest moments, the massacre at a ...

Donald Trump chose a Republican critic to join his cabinet Wednesday, the first woman on his top team after his early picks rewarded campaign loyalists. Trump's nomination of South Carolina's 44-year-old governor, Nikki Haley, as US ambassador to the ...

Donald Trump started the day tweeting about the "unfair" news media. He ended it with a polite sit-down with the New York Times where he called the daily a "world jewel." The turnabout may -- or may not -- signal a truce in the bitter war between the ...

Donald Trump started the day tweeting about the "unfair" news media. He ended it with a polite sit-down with the New York Times where he called the daily a "world jewel." The turnabout may -- or may not -- signal a truce in the bitter war between the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Reporters at The New York Times tweeted details from a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as it happened on Tuesday, contrasting it with an off-the-record session Trump held a day earlier with leaders at the top television ...

BEIRUT/GENEVA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The Syrian army on Tuesday said that rebels in eastern Aleppo were hoarding warehouses full of food and that they should clear land mines from humanitarian corridors, statements that rebels dismissed as propaganda.

Arsene Wenger has hit out at suggestions he is gambling with the fitness of Alexis Sanchez. The forward played the whole of Saturday's 1-1 draw at Manchester United despite suffering a hamstring injury while on international duty with Chile. Sanchez ...

An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, his lawyer and a judicial source said. It is the second appeals victory in a week for Morsi, ...

Barack Obama touched down in Peru on the final foreign visit of his eight-year presidency, facing tough questions from assembled Pacific leaders about Donald Trump's election victory. Obama landed at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport ahead of ...

A summit of top world leaders was urged Friday to defend free trade from rising protectionism after Donald Trump's election victory stoked fears that years of tearing down barriers to global commerce could be reversed. Trump, who triumphed in last week ...

Asia-Pacific leaders were urged Friday to defend free trade from rising protectionism after the election victory of Donald Trump stoked fears that years of tearing down barriers to global commerce could be reversed. Trump, who triumphed in last week's ...

MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi troops expanded their foothold on the eastern side of Islamic State's stronghold of Mosul on Friday, as the group pledged to mount more suicide attacks on their offensive to take the city. The elite ...

China heads into a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders Friday strengthened by the victory of US President-elect Donald Trump, whose protectionism has left the region looking to Beijing for leadership on free trade. Trump's upset in last week's election has ...

ISIS tyrant Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is sleeping in tunnels with a suicide vest after becoming increasingly paranoid about his closest team, it has been claimed. The terror mastermind is cowering beneath besieged Mosul while continuing to send jihadists to ...

NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described Donald Trump as a "trustworthy leader" after meeting the U.S. president-elect on Thursday to get clarity on statements Trump had made while campaigning that had caused concern ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi troops advanced cautiously into eastern districts of Mosul on Friday, facing stiff resistance from Islamic State militants a day after they paused their assault due to poor visibility, officers said. Airstrikes, automatic fire ...