Politics
Colombia President Santos offers truce with FARC
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos offered Wednesday to declare a bilateral ceasefire with the FARC guerrillas from January 1, which would mark ...Ouattara wins second term as Ivory Coast president
Alassane Ouattara has won a second term as Ivory Coast president in the nation\'s first peaceful vote in more than a decade, ...Guatemalan comedian wins presidency in landslide
Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian who has never held office, swept to power in Guatemala\'s presidential election on Sunday after milking ...Two policemen, seven Islamic State militants killed in Turkey
Two Turkish policemen and seven Islamic State militants were killed in a firefight after police raided more than a dozen houses in ...Tanzania votes in tight election race
Tanzanians voted in presidential and general elections Sunday, in what is expected to be the tightest race in the history of east ...Ivory Coast votes in first post-war presidential poll
Ivory Coast\'s President Alassane Ouattara was heavily favored to win a second term in a vote on Sunday seen as crucial to ...Congo votes for presidential referendum
Voting started slowly in a referendum in Congo Republic to determine whether 71-year-old Sassou Nguesso can legally stand for a third consecutive ...Police, protesters clash overnight in Kosovo
Police in Kosovo say one officer and two protesters have been injured in clashes in the capital, a day after the opposition ...Maldives arrests vice president over plot to assassinate president
Maldives police arrested Vice President Ahmed Adeeb Saturday on suspicion of links to a blast on the presidential boat last month.Egypt votes in parliamentary elections
Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country ...