US military to build war-ready stockpile in Australia: docs
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WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
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Africa & rest of the world
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Suspected Ebola cases top 900 in DR Congo: WHO chief
25 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Close shave: laser hair removal device sparks Australia airport evacuation
21 May 2026, 09:28 AM
Australia
Australian inquiry opens public hearings into Bondi Beach shooting
4 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Australia
Australian soldier charged with war crimes in Afghanistan
8 April 2026, 00:21 AM
Australia
China blasts ‘colonial’ Australia, New Zealand over rights concerns
19 March 2026, 01:36 AM
Australia
MSF says 26 staff missing from South Sudan violence
3 March 2026, 01:25 AM
Africa & rest of the world
At least 38 killed in armed attack in north-west Nigeria
21 February 2026, 19:36 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Obama did everything to beat me
Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
20 people dead as boat capsizes in Senegal
At least 20 people, almost all women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off Senegal's central coast in a delta region popular with
25 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Three nations chosen to test first vaccine
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world's first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas as
24 April 2017, 18:00 PM
S Sudan violence amounts to 'genocide': UK
Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International
13 April 2017, 18:36 PM
22 dead in blaze at Senegal retreat
A fire tore through makeshift straw shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede,
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Graft probes target 9 Brazil ministers
Brazil's corruption crisis struck the heart of President Michel Temer's government Tuesday with the opening of probes
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen, UN warns
The risk of mass starvation in four countries -- northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency says.
11 April 2017, 11:07 AM
ANC backs Zuma in reshuffle dispute
South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma yesterday won the backing of the ruling ANC party, which rejected calls
5 April 2017, 18:00 PM
S Africa's top trade union tells Zuma to go
South Africa's powerful trade union federation Cosatu, a key coalition partner of the ruling ANC, yesterday called for embattled President
4 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kidnap 22 girls, women in Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
'Real' Syria peace talks yet to start
The UN has said "incremental" progress was made during a fifth round of talks between Syria's warring parties, but
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Anti-apartheid icon Kathrada dies
Celebrated South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, a Robben Island prisoner and one of Nelson
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Kenyan forces kill 31 Shabaab militants in raid
Kenyan troops in Somalia killed 31 Islamist al Shabaab militants in a raid on two of their bases in the southern Somali
27 March 2017, 18:00 PM
46 killed in Nigeria in March ethnic clashes
At least 46 people were killed and almost 100 others wounded in clashes between rival ethnic groups in southwest Nigeria earlier this
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
ICC jails ex-Congo VP for bribing witnesses
Judges yesterday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Suicide blasts rock Nigeria migrant camp
At least four suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants fleeing Boko Haram insurgents in restive northeastern
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
20 die in freak tree accident in Ghana
Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a storm in Ghana, emergency officials
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Plane crash-lands in South Sudan
A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau yesterday, leaving at
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
110-minister govt!
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, calling it a
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Namibia claims $30b
Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule,
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM