A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

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A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father's severed head on YouTube was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole.

President Tinubu immersed himself in the affairs of Saint Lucia, a country whose population is scarcely more than a mid-sized local government area in Nigeria. On the surface, such a visit might have ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

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The Pentagon's move to shift its oversight of Greenland under U.S. Northern Command aligns with President Trump’s pledge to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

THIS handsome volume deals with a part of East Africa which, in spite of its apparent accessibility, has down to the present day remained surprisingly little known to the world at large.

France’s pledge to confront its colonial legacy is being tested in Madagascar, where historic grievances are clashing with modern geopolitics over the Scattered Islands – tiny, uninhabited ...

Djerba – which, at 198 square miles, is not just the largest island in Tunisia, but the biggest island in North Africa – has long been a magnet for visitors from Bordeaux and Berlin, package ...

THE sun-soaked archipelago of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa should be your next holiday destination if you want a bargain holiday. Not only has TUI recently opened a number of new hotels, b… ...