Pope Francis on Thursday met with Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman from an Islamic background who was sentenced to death-by-hanging for marrying a Christian and refusing to renounce her faith.
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An Air Algerie flight crashed on Thursday en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said. There were few clear
Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara. Contact was lost about 50 minutes
A lone bugler sounding the traditional military farewell “Last Post” marked the arrival Wednesday in the Netherlands of the first dead victims from the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
As many as 51 people are feared dead after a TransAsia Airways passenger plane crashed on one of Taiwan’s Penghu
Two Ukrainian military jets were shot down Wednesday in the eastern part of the country, where pro-Russian rebels have fought
Pro-Russian rebels claim to have recovered the black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down by
Bashar al-Assad has been sworn in for a new seven-year term as president of Syria after an election victory that
British foreign secretary, William Hague, announced his surprise resignation on Monday night ahead of a closely-fought national election next May
Ebola deaths ‘on the rise’ in Liberia, S’Leone Ebola continues to spread in Sierra Leone, Liberia and to a lesser
