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The Trump administration has announced the US will cancel permits allowing nearly 200,000 people from El Salvador to live and work in the country.

Child rights activists in Tanzania have criticized the arrest of five pregnant schoolgirls and their parents over the weekend.

Protests over rising bread prices broke out across Sudan on Sunday, leading to the death of a student and the arrest of a prominent opposition leader as authorities confiscated newspapers and looked to clamp down on growing unrest.

Thirteen people have been killed in an attack in the restive southern Senegalese region of Casamance.

The Egyptian parliament has commenced processes to criminalize atheism in the predominantly Muslim north African country.

A tourist was killed and 12 other people were injured in a hot air balloon crash near Luxor in Egypt on Friday, state-run news agency MENA reported.

North Korea has accepted South Korea's proposal for official talks, in what will be the first high-level contact to take place between the two countries in more than two years.

A severe winter storm is hitting eastern North America, extending a cold snap that has already claimed 11 lives.

A passenger train has caught fire in South Africa after colliding with a truck, killing four people and injuring 40, rescue workers have said.

Donald Trump was "befuddled" by his election win, did not enjoy his inauguration and was scared of the White House, according to a new book.

North Korea has reopened a hotline to South Korea, almost two years after it was disabled on the orders of leader Kim Jong-un.

Iran's anti-government protests are a result of deep-rooted structural issues that have existed for decades, analysts say.

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he would overhaul French media legislation this year to fight the "fake news" spread on social media, which he said threatened liberal democracies.