The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will likely continue for “a long time”, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Saturday, a day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected. The Australian-led…
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After months of post-election deadlock Madagascar’s president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post. The announcement came in a statement from president Hery Rajaonarimampianina’s office. It…
Mali’s new prime minister said on Wednesday he was forming a government which would prioritise security and reconciliation as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Moussa Mara, 39, was promoted…
Embroiled in political turmoil, Turkey’s leader has declared war on a shadowy enemy, a Muslim cleric he accuses of running a parallel “deep state” from faraway rural Pennsylvania. Out on the campaign trail ahead of Sunday’s local elections, there are…
Adolfo Suarez, the prime minister who led post-Franco Spain to democracy, died on Sunday at a Madrid hospital, his family’s spokesman said. He was 81. “Adolfo Suarez has died,” the spokesman Fermin Urbiola told reporters at the Cemtro hospital where…
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s campaign chief promised on Sunday that constitutional changes would create a “broad democracy” if the ailing incumbent wins re-election next month. Former prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal gave scant details…
British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron said Friday he would welcome Boris Johnson back to parliament, despite many tipping the popular London mayor for the party leadership. The Eton and Oxford-educated pair have a long-running…
Turkey’s combative prime minister warned on Thursday that he would eradicate Twitter in the wake of damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle that have spread across social networks in recent weeks. “We will wipe out Twitter. I don’t care…
Italy’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld a two-year ban from public office against former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi who had filed an appeal with the country’s top court. The ban was imposed as part of a tax fraud conviction against the media magnate…
(VP Office Reports) Nigeria’s Vice President, Namadi Sambo has called for increased bilateral ties between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire, especially…