CAIRO — An Egyptian court yesterday convicted 43 non-profit workers, including at least 16 Americans, of illegally using foreign funds to foment unrest in the country and sentenced them to up to five years in

LUSAKA. - Zambian President Michael Sata said Africa has been made into a “guinea pig” in the last 50 years by developed nations that pretend to help transform the continent, the Zambia Daily Mail reported

The Hague. —  Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday gave prosecutors until November to rescue their case against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, saying the evidence

BEIJING. — A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday expressed China’s demand that Japan return to the track of managing and resolving disputes over the Diaoyu Islands at an early date.

YEKATERINBURG. — Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his country’s sale of S-300 air defense systems to war-torn Syria yesterday, but said the contracts for the missiles have not yet been fulfilled.

Cape Town. - A group of people in Khayelitsha threw human waste at a bus on which Western Cape Premier Helen Zille and others had travelled to a green economy event yesterday, her spokesperson

HAVANA — Cuba is demolishing buildings constructed over the natural dunes of its famed seaside resort of Varadero, in a bid to fight beach erosion at

Cairo — An Egyptian court official says five foreigners, including a British sailor, have been sentenced to death after being convicted

ARIZONA — Two small planes from Phoenix-area flight schools collided in midair and crashed in the Arizona desert north of the city on Friday,

Cape Town — At least four people have died in the Western Cape due to severe cold and wet weather since Friday last week, provincial disaster officials

Tripoli — The leader of a political group in Libya’s oil-rich Cyrenaica province declared it a self-governing region in a speech on Saturday, evidence of growing