The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission accused the country's troops of using “systematic torture” against the protesters, who took to streets in the capital, Harare, last week after a sharp hike in fuel prices.

Expressing “serious doubts” on the conformity of the provisional results of December 30 vote in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the African Union has called on the country to suspend final election results.

At least 100 people have died, and hundreds of others are missing after an overloaded passenger ferry capsized in the south of Lake Victoria, Tanzania on Thursday.

Addressing a rally in the capital Caracas, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said he would ensure new collection points and routes are set up to let in humanitarian aid blocked by President Nicolás Maduro.

The International Contact Group on Venezuela has presented a plan that proposes a "political and peaceful process" to resolve Venezuelan crisis instead of a direct international intervention.

Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro said that he won’t quit under U.S. pressure, warning that his American counterpart Donald Trump will leave the White House “stained with blood.”

A Vietnamese woman, accused of killing N. Korean leader’s half-brother, could be released in May after she pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of “causing hurt by a dangerous weapon” as part of a plea bargain.

In an impassioned address at New Zealand’s parliament, PM Jacinda Ardern said she will never mention the name of the Christchurch attack accused, as he sought notoriety with the act of terror.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, after a long meeting with ministers in the wake of the horrendous Christchurch terror attack, said that her cabinet has backed gun law changes “in principle.”

British MPs torpedoed PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal for the second time on Wednesday, putting the U.K. on course to either delay its divorce from the EU or crash out of the bloc without a deal.

The freshly negotiated legal add-on to the Brexit deal could, however, do little to sway the Labors, as indicated by their leader Jeremy Corbyn, who described the changes as far short of what British PM had pledged.

Dutch PM Mark Rutte called the U.K. a “waning country,” warning that its exit from the European Union would leave it “too small” to flourish on the world stage and that “there is no such thing as splendid isolation.”

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Turkey of economic devastation if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria after the withdrawal of American troops while demanding the Kurds not to “provoke” Ankara either.

The U.S. Senate passed two resolutions last week, urging an end to America’s aid for Riyadh-led war in Yemen and accusing the kingdom’s crown prince of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

The U.S. tightened the noose around Iran on Monday by re-imposing the sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear deal, a move that prompted a defiant response from the country’s President Hassan Rouhani.

A U.S. court sentenced President Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison for financial crimes that involved tax fraud, bank fraud and hiding income from political consultation to Ukraine.

China's telecom giant Huawei filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over its ban on the use of company’s products in government agencies, saying that the measure stifles fair competition.

The remarks come a day after Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee launched a sweeping inquiry into alleged obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Donald Trump’s closest allies.