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Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.

President Donald Trump appears intent on correcting the distortion of the original pledges of the civil rights movement.

The bodies were found north of Kufra city, the attorney general said, while 76 migrants were freed "from forced detention." Kufra is about 1,712 kilometres (1,064 miles) from the capital Tripoli. On ...

New details and growing shock over emaciated hostages renewed pressure Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a fragile Gaza ceasefire beyond the ...

Irish super-featherweight boxer John Cooney dies after suffering a brain injury in last Saturday's defeat by Welshman Nathan ...