Han Hak-ja, 83, was accused of providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to former first lady Kim Keon Hee while her husband, Yoon Suk Yeol, was president, in an attempt to secure policy favours. She arrived Monday for sentencing -- at ...

Abiy, 50, has ruled the Horn of Africa country of 130 million since 2018. His party won another landslide victory at elections in June, albeit in the midst of a crackdown on the opposition and media. That was followed by a long-promised "national...

Leah Stewart, a primary school teacher, was placed in an induced coma and had part of her left arm amputated after the June 13 attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach. Stewart decided to go for a late morning swim in the "crystal clear" sea, unknowingly sh...

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi is a major hub for the east African region and vital to the country's tourism trade, but has seen multiple strikes in recent years as workers push for better conditions. Several flights were ca...

Han Hak-ja, 83, was accused of providing luxury items, including a designer handbag, to former first lady Kim Keon Hee while her husband, Yoon Suk Yeol, was president, in an attempt to secure policy favours. She arrived for sentencing at court Mond...

Rescuers pulled three dead bodies out of two tunnels, finding routes smothered in mud. No contact has yet been made with any of those feared trapped, but the government says more than 100 workers may still be alive inside multiple tunnels. They are...

The gathering of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors takes place Monday and Tuesday in the Blue Ridge Mountains city of Asheville, North Carolina. But looming over the meetings are fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran, a tightening ...

The floods hit the Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area on Saturday, forcing dozens of people to evacuate and damaging the sole water pipeline serving the park. The body of a 46-year-old man was recovered on Sunday evening near Crystal Rapids...

AFP Sport highlights African headline-makers in the major European leagues: ENGLAND YOANE WISSA (Newcastle Utd) Wissa endured a difficult first season with the Magpies, but has made a better start to the new campaign. He impressed in Newcastle's ...

The 46-year-old Williams -- handed a wild card into the singles in New York some 29 years after reaching the final at Flushing Meadows as a teenager in 1997 -- exited 6-2, 7-6 (8/6). Williams, though, left with her head held high after a battling p...

The 48th-ranked Argentine's 7-6 (7/5), 5-7, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 victory ended Djokovic's latest bid for a record 25th Grand Slam title. It also ended his run of 78 Grand Slam first-round victories, a streak stretching all the way back to Djokovic's 2006...

Here are the latest developments: Iran attacks Jordan, UAE Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they attacked two US military air bases with ballistic missiles in Washington-allied Jordan, causing "heavy damage", state media reported. Jordan's a...

The gathering aims to grapple with challenges such as climate change, drug crime, and the Chinese test-firing of a ballistic missile in July that landed in the Pacific Ocean. China's security and economic influence has added resonance this year, be...

Here are the latest developments: Iran attacks Jordan, UAE Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they attacked two US military air bases with ballistic missiles in Washington-allied Jordan, causing "heavy damage", state media reported. Jordan's a...

The latest confirmed death toll surged above 900, but the number of those unaccounted for is also climbing -- with unidentified bodies buried in mass graves after DNA sampling. The huge wave of freezing water, rocks and debris that smashed into vil...