Iraq's parliament on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban the popular but brutal online game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds for ‘inciting violence’ in the war-torn country.

Nigeria's election was ‘peaceful’ despite isolated incidences of violence and malpractice, the African Union (AU) observer mission said Monday.

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday on the first anniversary of the Parkland school gun massacre that he will ‘not rest’ until US schools are made safe.

A district police chief and two other policemen were transferred after an officer and a civilian were killed in mob violence over alleged cow slaughter in northern India, reports said Saturday.

‘Bring your own noose’ as you enter the ‘killing zone’ -- anonymous briefings against British Prime Minister Theresa May are nothing new, but the ferocity of the latest batch sparked a fierce backlash Monday.

At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland near Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, police said ...

Opposition parties banded together to organise their first protest action in a joint campaign to stir discontent with Narendra Modi's government.

Clashes raged on Monday on the outskirts of Libya's capital Tripoli trapping residents indoors and hampering rescue efforts, as the UN called for talks after more than a week of deadly violence.

The handover comes at a sensitive time in the 17-year war that has seen little progress by Afghan or US forces against the Taliban.

There are three crossings to the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that has been under an Israeli blockade for the last decade.

Responding to the FIFA statement, Jibril Rajoub said that the decision was "unfair" and said he would launch an appeal.

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected for a five-year term after winning 67.17% of the vote in a runoff, the government announced on Thursday.