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Kenya's home-grown drug problem

Drug use in Kenya has risen fast in the past few years, according to religious leaders, politicians ...

Mar 05, 2015 08:45 AM EST

Police in Germany's Bremen release two arrested over Islamist threat

Police in the northern German city of Bremen released two people early on Sunday who had been arrest...

Mar 01, 2015 08:49 AM EST

French lawmaker faces party sanctions for Syria trip

A French lawmaker who went to Damascus for the first talks with Syrian officials since the 2012 clos...

Feb 26, 2015 08:59 PM EST

Egyptian court acquits top Mubarak era officials on graft charges: sources

An Egyptian court on Tuesday acquitted two top Hosni Mubarak-era officials of graft charges at a ret...

Feb 24, 2015 05:01 AM EST

Blood-soaked truck symbolizes Boko Haram's war without borders

A Nigerian armored personnel carrier spattered with blood, riddled with bullets and towed into an ar...

Feb 18, 2015 05:18 AM EST

Libya prime minister calls for international strikes on Islamists

Libya's internationally recognized prime minister called for the West to launch air strikes to defea...

Feb 16, 2015 06:27 AM EST

Danish police kill 22-year-old suspected of Copenhagen shootings

Police shot dead a 22-year-old Danish-born gunman on Sunday after he killed two people at a Copenhag...

Feb 15, 2015 06:22 PM EST

Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death

Jordan hanged two Iraqi jihadists on Wednesday including a female militant in response to an Islamic...

Feb 04, 2015 06:42 AM EST

Turkey revokes passport of bitter Erdogan rival Gulen

The Turkish government has canceled the passport of ally-turned-foe Fethullah Gulen, local media rep...

Feb 03, 2015 06:41 PM EST

Thousands join anti-Charlie rally in Russia's Chechnya

Tens of thousands of people staged a rally on Monday in Russia's Chechnya region against French maga...

Jan 19, 2015 06:39 AM EST

Fifteen detained after Belgian police kill Islamist gunmen

Belgian police were questioning 13 suspects on Friday detained during raids against an Islamist grou...

Jan 16, 2015 08:10 AM EST

Paris police arrest 12 linked to shootings as Kerry arrives

Police arrested a dozen people overnight suspected of helping the Islamist militant gunmen in last w...

Jan 16, 2015 03:35 AM EST

China investigates 32 for graft linked to Xinjiang Muslim pilgrims

China is investigating 32 officials from the western region of Xinjiang for graft linked to pilgrima...

Jan 15, 2015 03:06 AM EST

China punishes 17 officials over Xinjiang violence

China has punished 17 officials for lapses in connection with explosions and riots in the Xinjiang r...

Jan 10, 2015 10:27 AM EST

Armed French gendarmes swoop on villages in manhunt for newspaper attackers

Armed and masked anti-terrorism police swooped on woodland villages northeast of Paris on Thursday i...

Jan 08, 2015 07:57 PM EST

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