An Austrian woman has been kidnapped in Niger, the first time a European citizen has been seized in the country since the military took power in 2023. Austria’s Federal Ministry for European and ...

An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

A new armed group called Lakurawa is attacking villages in remote corners of northwestern Nigeria and across the border in Niger, posing new threats to two countries that already suffer from ...

NIAMEY, Jan 12 (Reuters) - An Austrian woman was kidnapped in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources said. One of the sources said the woman was ...

Simon Cowell has expressed that he is "devasted" by the impact of the LA wildfires currently roaring through more than 25,000 acres of Los Angeles County as the death toll reaches 24. The ...

The Austrian foreign ministry says a female citizen has been taken by unknown assailants in the military-run West African country, Niger. It confirmed the incident to the AFP news agency and said ...

Australian journalist and television presenter Simon Townsend has died aged 79. His family confirmed the news, saying Townsend had a short battle with an aggressive cancer. He was best known as ...

As his 70th birthday approaches later this week, Simon Rattle — curly locks now snowy white — seems to remain in a perpetual state of self-renewal. The London Symphony Orchestra, where he is ...

Benin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have said. Colonel Faizou Gomina, the national guard's chief of staff ...

China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama's government has to deal with, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy for Latin America, said on Friday ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...