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 Istanbul (dpa) – Twin blasts in Istanbul killed 29 people and injured 166, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Saturday, adding that 10 people have been detained in connection with the attack near a football stadium.Among the

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A runaway tanker carrying volatile gas slammed into other vehicles and burst into flames on a major road in Kenya, killing at least 33 people and injuring 10, officials said early Sunday.The tanker lost control while

MOSCOW, December 10 (Sputnik) – At least 56 people were killed and 177 others were injured in a suicide bombing in northeastern Nigeria, local media report.At least 57 of the wounded received critical injuries and were taken to hospitals in

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near the Pacific’s Solomon Islands on Friday, prompting authorities to issue tsunami warnings for several nearby island nations.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

CAPE TOWN, December 6 (ANA) – South African President Zuma on Tuesday congratulated President-elect Adama Barrow on his victory in the elections of the West African Republic of The Gambia.The elections took place on December 1.Zuma conveyed

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It’s a rare moment of public reckoning for South Korea’s most powerful business leaders, courtesy of the country’s biggest political scandal in years.Usually cloistered executives from Samsung

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — A wooden box containing Fidel Castro’s ashes was placed by his brother and successor on Sunday into the side of a granite boulder that has become Cuba’s only official monument to the charismatic bearded rebel

HAVANA, CUBA, November 30 (ANA) – South African President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana, hailing him as “one of the greatest revolutionaries of our time and one of the greatest heroes of the