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Rights groups have called for an investigation into the death of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani activist living in exile in Toronto, Canada. Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region...

Caring has the gift of making rejected people special and brings joy to the despaired. It is at the back of this, that Crime Check Foundation, CCF has held a...

Rwanda has deployed what it called a "protection force" to the Central African Republic after its peacekeepers there were attacked by rebels advancing to the capital, Bangui. The Rwandan and...

More than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria. The boys arrived in the state capital Katsina...

The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis...

Rescuers are trying to free more than 1,000 vehicles which have been stranded on a highway for two days after a heavy snow storm struck Japan. Authorities have distributed food,...

Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state...

The Enchi District Magistrate court has remanded three persons into Police custody for allegedly robbing a Chinese immigrant. Kwaku Bayaala alias Eleven, 27, Kwaku Sandago, 26, are both illegal miners...

A snowstorm is set to cause chaos in parts of the US east coast with more than 60 million people under a winter storm watch. The storm is expected to...

Food banks across the country are straining to meet rising demand during the pandemic, even in some of the country's wealthier regions. Karla Candelario, 30, never thought she and her...