Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini claimed growing support in the EU for his hardline immigration policies as he called Tuesday for French leader Emmanuel Macron to stop insulting him over the vexed issue. The remarks came as international interior ministers met to discuss the migrant crisis in the French city of Lyon, where EU membe ...

Pope Francis will visit Madagascar next year, the island nation's cardinal Desire Tsarahazana said on Tuesday. He will come to us in 2019, Tsarahazana told journalists at the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke however declined to confirm the visit but said it was being considered. ...

Women everywhere are sharing stories of sexual harassment and gender inequality but men still aren't really listening, Nigerian author and feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie told the Frankfurt book fair Tuesday, urging men to read books by women. All over the world today women are speaking up. Their stories are still not really heard, Adic ...

Nearly 400 tonnes of fake medicines have been seized over two years in Ivory Coast, whose main city Abidjan is a West African haven for counterfeit drugs, the health ministry said Tuesday. Counterfeit medicine is the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world's poorest continent, according to the World Health ...

The ruling party in Sao Tome and Principe emerged victorious in a weekend election but lost its majority in the small African island nation, according to initial results, as hundreds demonstrated against potential poll fraud but were dispersed by riot police. In power since 2014, the Independent Democratic Action party (ADI) won Sunday's poll, s ...