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Two tourists who were killed, along with their tour guide, in an attack near a Ugandan national park were a newlywed couple, the country's president said in a statement.

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The death toll from flooding that hit the eastern Libyan city of Derna has reached more than 5000 and was expected to rise further, a local health official said.

Emergency workers have uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya's eastern city of Derna.

In some villages, more than half the population has been killed.

Rescuers are digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco in a desperate bid to find survivors after more than 2000 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades.

Moroccans are working to rescue survivors and praying for victims of the nation's strongest earthquake in more than a century.

The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers struggle to reach more remote areas.

The Group of 20 top world economies welcomed the African Union as a member at their annual summit on Saturday.

Some people threw babies out of third-story windows to others waiting below in the desperate scramble to evacuate, witnesses said.

Mutinous soldiers in Gabon claiming to have arrested the president, whose family has held power for 55 years.

There has been no official comment from Beijing after the leader failed to make a scheduled appearance at an international business meeting.

An AFP commander was not sent to Mozambique until a coroner ordered it to "move heaven and earth" to find answers for Elly Warren's family earlier this year.

The family of a Melbourne woman killed in Mozambique seven years ago are hopeful an Australian inquest will finally give them closure on how she died.

Satellite images allegedly reveal secret burial sites on migrant routes, and report warns the death toll could even be in the 'thousands'.

A wealthy dentist convicted of killing his wife at the end of an African safari in Zambia is expected to be sentenced to life in prison for murder.

Elly's dad has fought for answers ever since his daughter died overseas.

Dozens missing at sea are presumed dead after the crew of a fishing boat rescued almost 40 people and recovered several bodies.

Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef in separate incidents over the weekend.

This is Niger’s fifth coup and marks the fall of one of the last democratically elected governments in North Africa's Sahel region.

A windswept Arctic fox, a murmuration of birds facing a snowstorm in the Himalayas, and a man and a boy in a flooded living room are among the images recognized in this year's Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's Environmental Photography Award.

Two of the victims were aged just one year and six years old.

Barbie has been banned in Vietnam, but it's far from the only film to fall foul of a nation's censorship or review boards.

Researchers don't believe it was one killed by an orca a day earlier.

It might seem like everyone you know right now is galivanting around Europe, sipping on Aperol Spritz' while devouring delectable pastries. According to one study though, Europe isn't the only place Aussies are keen on travelling to this year.

The killings highlighted the growing human-wildlife conflict in parts of east Africa that conservationists say has been exacerbated by a years-long drought.

Experts on the expedition estimate they saw from 10 to 13 of the tiny, shy, elusive porpoises during nearly two weeks of sailing in the gulf last month.

Legislation stipulates capital punishment for 'serial offenders' and transmission of HIV/AIDS through gay sex.

A diplomatic row remains unsolved after Buckingham Palace refused to return the remains of an Ethiopian royal buried in the UK to his native country.

He was seized in West Africa by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in 2016.

A toddler has died after a boat ferrying more than 30 villagers across the Shire River in Malawi's Nsanje district in Africa was attacked by a hippo, causing it to overturn, authorities said.

Authorities in the central African nation are preparing to recover more bodies.

A Nigerian senator, his wife and a doctor were on Friday jailed over an organ harvesting plot involving a young man who was trafficked to the UK for his kidney, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement.

Thirty-six Australians and their families were on the RAAF flight as they fled the war-torn nation three weeks into a bloody campaign.

Assistant foreign affairs minister Tim Watts is urging Australian citizens to leave war-torn Sudan now, as "plenty of seats" have been secured on flights out of the country.

Eltayeb Eltayeb touched down in Melbourne to hugs and tears from loved ones after help from Canada.

More than 100 citizens are stranded in the African nation, and relatives have been urging the government to do more as there is no Australian embassy in the country.

The warning came as Western and Asian nations raced to mount rapid evacuation efforts.

Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to pull Africa's third-largest nation back from the abyss.

The leader of the religious sect has been described as a 'terrible criminal'.

Thirty-nine bodies have been found so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death.

Droughts, floods and record low ice levels - from the top of the world's mountains to the depths of the ocean, the climate crisis took a heavy toll in 2022.

The letter has been signed by 15 leading scientists around the world, from countries including South Africa, the United States, Canada, the UK, Kenya, and Australia.

Fierce fighting across Sudan has entered a second day as months of tensions between a paramilitary group and the country's army erupted into violence.

The entire course of Paul Templer's life changed after he agreed at the last minute to take a group of tourists down the Zambezi River.

From challenging investigations into civil war and environmental decline, to the inspiring and serene moments that can only be captured through a camera: these are the best photographs of the year, as chosen by Sony's judges.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory on Thursday about the Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania.

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