Brasilia - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reiterated her pledge to ensure the safety of competing teams, officials and fans during the upcoming World Cup.
Beijing - Egypt’s Election Commission has extended polling for the country’s Presidential Election by one day.
Pretoria - An explosion in the central Nigerian city of Jos has killed at least three people in a suicide attack, police say.
Pretoria - The South African government has called for the return of constitutional order in Thailand following a coup d’état in that country on Thursday.
Beijing - Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to severely punish terrorists and spare no efforts in maintaining stability in response to Thursday morning's fatal explosions in Urumqi.
Pretoria – Eleven people were arrested in Pretoria on Tuesday on charges relating to an international financial fraud scam.
Paris - French President Francois Hollande, West African leaders and representatives of western powers on Saturday voiced determination to forge a strong front to fight militant group Boko Haram.
Pretoria - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on voters in Guinea-Bissau to continue to show sense of civic duty in today’s presidential run-off, which is expected to bring the country's transition period to an end.
Sarajevo - At least 19 people were killed by floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), with hundreds of buildings damaged and over 10 000 people evacuated.
Istanbul - The Turkish government announced on Wednesday that so far, 201 miners are known to have lost their lives and at least 80 have been injured in a coal mine explosion and fire in Turkey's western Manisa province, on Tuesday.
