Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has announced that it is scrapping all agreements with the principal opposition coalition amid mounting condemnation over its brutal crackdown on protesters. 

Cyclone Idai, the worst ever disaster to hit the southern hemisphere, has ravaged almost everything that crossed its path, as it ripped through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, affecting millions of people.

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.

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.”

China’s President Xi Jinping, who is on a three-day visit to Russia, lauded his “best friend” Vladimir Putin, as he seeks to forge stronger trade and bilateral ties with Moscow amid an ongoing trade war with the U.S.

Fierce sectarian violence killed one person in Sri Lanka on Monday as rioters vandalized mosques and Muslim-owned shops, three weeks after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that left more than 250 people dead.

A high court judge in New Zealand on Friday ordered that the Australian, accused of killing 50 people in Christchurch mass shootings last month, be put through mental health tests to determine if “he is fit to stand trial."

The fresh impasse over Brexit deal alternatives is embarrassing for the British parliament that has long sought to seize control of the Brexit process but failed to deliver a solution when the moment came.

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.

Israel’s parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself after a military conscription bill proved to be a sticking point in the formation of a right-wing coalition despite weeks of negotiations.

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton accused Iran of orchestrating the attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the U.A.E. earlier this month, adding that the naval mines involved were “almost certainly from Iran.”

The offensive, targeting the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, killed 11 pro-government fighters while the Syrian media claimed that several “hostile targets” were shot down by the country’s air defenses.

Alabama’s Republican-controlled state Senate has passed a bill placing the strictest-in-the-nation ban on abortion and outlawing the procedure at any stage of pregnancy with no exception for rape or incest.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign found no evidence of links between Moscow and President Donald Trump or any of his aides.

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.