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Two arrested over Mali hotel attack

Malian special forces have arrested two men over an attack on a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako which killed 19 people. An army statement...

Islamic militants kill 7 in attack on hotel in Egypt’s Sinai

An Islamic militant attack involving a suicide car bombing and gunmen has targeted a hotel in Egypt’s northern Sinai region, killing seven people, according...

Liberia records first Ebola death since July

A teenage boy has died of Ebola in Liberia, the first fatality since July in one of the three West African countries hit hardest...

State Department issues travel warning for US citizens

Americans have been warned to be alert to possible travel risks, especially during the holidays, following increased terrorist threats around the world. The State Department...

Egypt plane crash caused by on-board terrorist attack, says Russia

Security Service has said this morning that last month's Metrojet plane crash in Egypt was caused by a terrorist attack. Alexander Bortnikov told President Vladimir...

Sierra Leone hours from being declared free of Ebola

Leone – where British nurse Pauline Cafferkey caught Ebola – is just hours from being declared free of the disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO)...

Tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh to fly home today

Holidaymakers in Sharm el-Sheikh will be flown home today, but passengers will only be allowed hand luggage. Planes are banned from carrying bags in the...

Claim that ‘Islamic State’ caused plane crash ‘propaganda’, says Egypt president

Claims by the so-called 'Islamic State' group that it caused a Russian passenger plane to crash, killing all 224 people on board, are “propaganda”...

Troops drive Boko Haram out of school building

Nigerian troops have driven Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned north-eastern primary school in a shootout that killed four militants. Insurgents were using the...

Egyptians begin voting for new parliament

Egyptians are voting in the nation’s first parliamentary election since the military’s 2013 ousting of Egypt’s first freely elected president. Egyptians residing abroad began voting...

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