Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Quran.
In pockets of the rugged mountains near the Lebanese border, the distinctive yellow flag of Hezbollah now flies where al-Qaida militants once held sway.
Leaders of the Gulf nations unnerved by Washington's nuclear talks with Iran and Teheran's meddling across the Middle East want US President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at this week's summit at Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Maryland woods.
South Africa's main opposition group chose its first black leader at a party congress on Sunday, seeking to expand its appeal in a country whose rule has been dominated by one party since the first all-race elections in 1994.
British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his new Cabinet on Monday after an unexpected election victory that gave his Conservative party a narrow majority in Parliament for the first time in nearly 20 years.
Francois Hollande arrived in Havana on Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing France's lead in the EU rapprochement with the island.
Since Nigeria's army began clearing large areas of the country's northeast from Boko Haram, some of the 1.5 million internally displaced people have started returning home. But thousands could now face severe food shortages as reconstruction lags behind.
Two people - a 70-year-old man and his 45-year-old son - were killed in a powerful typhoon that grazed the Philippines' northeastern tip.
It's called Beur FM radio - after a French slang term for Arab people - and has become the voice of France's Islamic community in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
It was a large house with three floors and freshly painted pale blue shutters that had just been built for a family of 17.
Iranian-allied Houthi fighters in Yemen accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian cease-fire proposed by their adversary Saudi Arabia but said they would respond to any violations.
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