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Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta in last month's repeat presidential vote, paving the way for him to be sworn in next week.

Mugabe was expected to meet generals on Sunday to agree the terms of his departure after 37 years in charge.

When Iraqi forces arrived in Rawa on Friday they were greeted by scenes of relief that have been repeated across the country as IS was pushed out of one town, village and city after another.

The inferno broke out in Beijing's southern Daxing district, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities.

The auction house is expecting to sell Donald Trump and First Lady Melania's wedding cake for somewhere between USD 1,000 and USD 2,000, though the current bid already stands at USD 1,250, with just six bids entered so far.

Sexual assault in the military, which is defined as anything from groping to rape, is believed to be significantly higher than the number of reports. The Pentagon said it estimates that, in 2016, less than a third of service members who experienced a sexu...

"To say that I am held up in Saudi Arabia and not allowed to leave the country is a lie. I am on the way to the airport," Hariri tweeted.

Britain's debt to Iran dates from the 1970s, before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 toppled the US-backed Shah. Iran paid up front for 1,750 Chieftain tanks and other vehicles, but most were never delivered because of sanctions imposed on Tehran after the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping's special envoy, Song Tao, will visit North Korea on Friday to inform its leadership about the outcome of the recent national congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).

Donald Trump, who is still seeking his first major legislative win since taking office in January, went to the US Capitol just before the House vote to urge Republicans to pass the tax bill, which Democrats call a giveaway to the wealthy and businesses.

The painting, only recently rediscovered and the last da Vinci left in private hands, fetched more than four times over the Christie's pre-sale estimate of about $100 million.

The increasingly outspoken Grace Mugabe, who has survived a number of scandals, now looks poised to become one of the country's two vice presidents.

"Russia is seeking to undermine the international system. That much is clear," Ciaran Martin, head of Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said at a London tech conference, according to his office.

In an unprecedented step, the head of the armed forces, Constantino Chiwenga, openly threatened to intervene in politics on Monday, a week after President Robert Mugabe fired Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa, long seen as 93-year-old Mugabe's likely succe...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced to five years after being convicted by an Iranian court of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. She denies the charges.

On North Korea, Trump said "China can fix this problem quickly and easily", urging Beijing to cut financial links with North Korea and also calling on Russia to help.