AFP, NAIROBI: The United Nations’ aid chief for Somalia begged for cash Thursday to stave off starvation amid intense drought affecting a million…

STOCKHOLM:  An ex-wife of Islamic State group (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with whom he had a daughter, wants to live in Europe “in freedom”, she told Swedish daily Expressen in an interview published Thursday. “I want to live in a European country, not an Arab country,”…

AFP, ROME: An Italian nurse has been arrested on suspicion of killing 13 patients by administering fatal doses of a blood-thinning drug while they were in intensive care, authorities announced on Thursday. Fausta Bonino, 56, allegedly killed the patients aged between 61 and 88 over the course of 2014…

AFP, MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Shebab insurgents said they carried out a suicide attack at a hotel in the central town of Galkayo Thursday in which six people died, including a senior local government official. “There was a blast, a suicide bomber blew himself up killing several people including…

AFP, THE HAGUE: UN war crimes judges Thursday acquitted radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj on all nine charges of committing atrocities in the 1990s Balkans wars, in a surprise judgement which was swiftly denounced by Croatia. “The chamber by majority holds that the prosecution has not provided…