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The Kenyan Independent Electoral Commission is set to declare that Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected as President, garnering 98 percent of the valid votes cast in the fresh election held last week.

Former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Cook County, Illinois.

The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, while the Spanish parliament has approved direct rule over the region.

The US government has released 2,800 previously classified files on the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963.

A police official says a man has been shot dead in western Kenya's Bungoma County as police and youth engage in running battles amid tensions over Thursday's repeat presidential election.

At least 23 people have been killed and dozens injured after an explosion and fire at an Indonesian fireworks factory, police say.

The case filed by three civil society activists in Supreme Court seeking to have tomorrow’s rerun presidential election postponed failed to take off Wednesday even as it was treated as a matter of urgency.

Tennessee Senator Bob Corker has unleashed a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump after the two Republicans traded insults on Twitter.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a stern warning to individuals planning to disrupt Thursday’s poll.

The World Health Organization has cancelled the appointment of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador after global condemnation.

The head of the World Health Organisation says he is "rethinking" his appointment of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a "goodwill ambassador".

The Spanish prime minister has outlined plans to remove Catalonia's leaders and take control of the separatist region.

More than 50 Egyptian security personnel have died during a clash with suspected Islamist militants.