Rio state police officers went on strike Friday over a dispute about pay, jeopardising Brazil's Carnival celebration that kicks off on February 17. Thousands of soldiers will now likely be deployed to assure the city's security.
An ongoing police strike in Brazil’s third-largest city could disrupt this year’s Carnival celebrations, even after officers peacefully ended a nine-day standoff with soldiers at a government building.
Armed militants blew up a police headquarters and shot an officer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Monday as more blasts were reported in Maiduguri, a hotbed of Boko Haram Islamists. Coordinated attacks in Kano last month killed at least 185 people.
The activist hacker group Anonymous has intercepted and published a sensitive phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard – discussing how to fight hacking. The FBI said it was investigating the matter.
Tensions are rising between police and Occupy protesters in the US. Iranian authorities arrest the organizers of an online beauty contest. And a tour around America’s Yosemite National Park…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's challenge to the Boko Haram group to identify themselves and state their demands surprised many Nigerians. Boko Haram's identity and demands are no secret. But can talks bring the peace Nigerians seek?
We take a closer look at the violence rocking a newly independent South Sudan. We then drive through the streets of Abidjan as authorities seek to restore order to Ivory Coast. Finally, we get a taste of the atmosphere in Gabon, which is hosting the Africa Cup of Nations for the very first time.
The death toll from coordinated gun and bomb attacks in Nigeria's second largest city Kano has risen to at least 178, a hospital doctor said Sunday, as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the area.
Coordinated bomb attacks and gun battles have left at least 121 people dead in Nigeria's second city of Kano, a Red Cross source said Saturday. Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the violence.
The Islamist sect Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated bomb attacks targeting security forces in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on Friday, which left at least seven people dead.
