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December 10, 2015

Polls open in Zimbabwe election

Zimbabweans voted Wednesday in elections that will determine the future of longtime President Robert Mugabe, who has denied allegations of vote-rigging and dismissed concerns about the credibility of the polls.

December 10, 2015

Zimbabwe PM forges coalition with ex-Mugabe allies

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday unveiled a coalition with former allies of Robert Mugabe, in a bid to unseat the veteran president at elections later this month.

December 10, 2015

Reeva Steenkamp's parents won't pursue civil claim against Pistorius, will return payments

Reeva Steenkamp's cousin sobbed while testifying Wednesday how she first heard on a car radio that Oscar Pistorius had killed his girlfriend.

December 10, 2015

Egypt's Mubarak leaves prison, says interior ministry

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was flown from prison by helicopter to a military hospital Thursday after he was cleared for conditional release while standing trial, an interior ministry general told AFP.

December 10, 2015

Mall visit becomes a trip to hell for Kenyan shoppers

"You're a very bad man," a brave four-year-old British boy told one of the Islamist gunmen in the bloody siege of a Nairobi mall, one of the many poignant tales emerging from the attacks that have horrified the world.

December 10, 2015

Officials: 67 Dead in Northeast Nigeria Attacks

At least 67 people died in a wave of bombings and shootings carried out in northeast Nigeria overnight, officials said Saturday, as frightened mourners left their homes to begin burying their dead.

December 10, 2015

British Islamist in Kenya had 'explosive' chemicals

A British detective gave evidence Tuesday in Kenya at the trial of suspected British militant Jermaine Grant, accused of ties to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab and plotting attacks.

December 10, 2015

61 killed in New Year's stampede in Ivory Coast

Authorities say that at least 61 people were killed in a stampede when New Year's revels turned into a panicked stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial center.

December 10, 2015

British national arrested in Nairobi mall attack: UK

A British national has been arrested in Nairobi over the bloody attack on a shopping mall by armed Islamists, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

December 10, 2015

Most hostages rescued, shopping mall mostly secure: Kenyan army

Most of the hostages trapped in a Nairobi shopping mall by Islamist gunmen have now been rescued and most of the complex is secure, the Kenya army announced late Sunday.