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The Israeli government has issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment.

Nine more people have been killed overnight as clashes between protesters and security forces continue in Iran for the sixth day, state media report.

The former footballer Sen. George Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has won Liberia’s presidential election, defeating vice-president Joseph Boakai in a runoff with over 262,935 votes.

The government of Kenya through the Ministry of Health has banned the use of shisha in the country.

Vote counting has begun in Liberia in a run-off presidential election between Vice-President Joseph Boakai and former international footballer George Weah.

Violent extremism contributes and continues to poss great challenges to the global security architecture, stability and socio-economic development, creating a humanitarian crisis, sometimes of very unimaginable magnitudes, Mr Thomas Kwesi Quartey, Deputy Chairperson, African Union (AU) has stated.

The Palestinian foreign ministry has denounced a new Israeli settlement construction plan, which includes the building of 300,000 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem.

Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholics not to ignore the plight of millions of migrants “driven from their land”, during Christmas Eve Mass.

A 25-year-old housewife, Helen Bassey Umoh, has told an Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo to end her nine-month-old marriage with her husband, Michael Bassey Umoh over ‘malfunctioning’ of her husband’s manhood.

The US has sanctioned a Myanmar general accused of leading an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya people.

Australian police have arrested two people after a car drove into a crowd in Melbourne.

The US Senate has approved the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax system in more than three decades.

Zambia’s inspector general of police Kakoma Kanganja has cancelled the induction of eight Chinese nationals as police reservists.