AFP, GENEVA: A botched air strike by the Nigerian Air Force earlier this week on a camp for people displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 90 people, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid group said Friday.Most of the victims of the strike in Rann in the country’s northeast on Tuesday…

AFP, BANJUL, Gambia: Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh faced a “last chance saloon” deadline to step down as troops from five African nations stood by for action and key regional leaders flew in to make a final plea.Mauritania’s Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and Guinea’s Alpha Conde told…

AFP, NEW YORK: Mexican drug baron Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, one of the world’s most notorious criminals, was extradited to the United States on Thursday to face charges on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration.Guzman heads the Sinaloa cartel, which is accused of generating…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Hundreds of protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump clashed with guests leaving an event in honour of the new US president in Washington…

AFP, PENNE, Italy: Rescuers have found six people alive in an Italian mountain hotel devastated by an avalanche two days ago, officials said on Friday. Emergency workers were able to speak to the survivors and have called for helicopters to evacuate them after more than 40 hours under the rubble of…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iranian officials said Friday they were losing hope of pulling any survivors from the rubble of a collapsed Tehran high-rise where around 20 firefighters are feared to have lost their lives. Rescue workers, soldiers and sniffer dogs were still frantically searching through the wreckage…