DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A West African regional force charged into neighboring Gambia late Thursday to support the country's newly inaugurated president, while longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh showed no sign of stepping down. The troops moved in shortly ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new Gambian president was sworn into office in neighboring Senegal on Thursday while Gambia's defeated longtime ruler refused to step down from power, deepening a political crisis in the tiny West African country.

The president-elect was seen in his motorcade departing Trump Tower on Thursday morning as he heads down to his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Minutes later he arrived at LaGuardia Airport where he got on his first government flight, having ...

Desperate guests trapped inside an Italian hotel have been sending texts to loved-ones after the building was crushed by a huge avalanche killing up to 30 people. One message, believed to have been sent from the four-star Hotel Rigopiano, said 'Help ...

Italian news reports say that some guests at a mountain hotel struck by an avalanche sent text messages to emergency numbers advising they were trapped inside. An Italian firefighters helicopter flies during rescue operations in the area where an hotel ...

One of Egypt's greatest ever footballers has been put on a terror watchlist by authorities over suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed Aboutrika, 38, who publicly endorsed Mohamed Morsi's presidential bid in 2012, was one of more ...

Thomas Cook is today sending jets to Gambia to evacuate 1,000 tourists - and needs to trace thousands more - amid fears the country is on the brink of civil war. President Yahya Jammeh is refusing to step aside after he lost the election to opposition ...

Thomas Cook is today sending jets to Gambia to evacuate 1,000 tourists - and needs to trace thousands more - amid fears the country is on the brink of civil war. President Yahya Jammeh is refusing to step aside after he lost the election to opposition ...

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - After months of Brexit uncertainty, the first faint outlines of a plan from Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday have given investors in Britain's pound something to work with at last - although substantial risks remain of ...

Just a few weeks after the Brexit vote, I was confronted by one of Britain's most senior bankers at a social event stuffed with the nation's business elite. The message was shrill: 'This is a disaster. You have to help convince the Government we must ...

Just a few weeks after the Brexit vote, I was confronted by one of Britain's most senior bankers at a social event stuffed with the nation's business elite. The message was shrill: 'This is a disaster. You have to help convince the Government we must ...

Theresa May delivered an emphatic ultimatum to EU leaders yesterday – warning she will walk away if they offer her a 'bad' Brexit deal. In an iron-willed speech, the Prime Minister told Brussels that not striking a trade agreement with the UK would be ...

Theresa May laid out her Brexit demands in a series of phone calls to EU leaders, including Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. The Prime Minister told the heads of Germany and France that Britain would not stay in the single market and insisted ...

Theresa May laid out her Brexit demands in a series of phone calls to EU leaders, including Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. The Prime Minister told the heads of Germany and France that Britain would not stay in the single market and insisted ...

Theresa May has laid out her Brexit aims in a series of phone calls to EU leaders, including Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. The Prime Minister told the heads of Germany and France that Britain would not stay in the single market and insisted ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian air force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp on Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and aid workers and wounding 200, a government official and doctors ...

A Nigerian jet has accidentally bombed a refugee camp killing more than 100 people after mistaking them for Boko Haram extremists. Among the dead were six Red Cross workers who were with the refugees when the bombardment rained down on northeast ...

ISTANBUL, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Turkish authorities have captured the gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, an Uzbek national they said was trained in Afghanistan and had clearly acted on behalf of Islamic State.

A woman whose sister was on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 says the families had hoped until the end that a clue would be found that would locate the plane. But they understood the search was too expensive to continue indefinitely. FILE - In this March ...

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared ...