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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.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people inside a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

South African singer and ex-MP Jennifer Ferguson has accused the country's football boss Danny Jordaan, 66, of raping her nearly 24 years ago.

Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has created a new cybersecurity ministry that will focus on crimes on social media and other websites ahead of an election due next year.

A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced a 31 year-old small scale miner to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling and impregnating a fifteen year-old Junior High School student.