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The founder of a major airline in Nigeria has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for allegedly moving more than $20 million from foreign sources through American bank accounts and using it, in part, to pay for living expenses, luxury cars and high-end shopping, according to US officials …

At least 29 people were killed in Kenya as heavy rains triggered a landslide, President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a statement Saturday.

Pro-democracy groups in the territory are urging people not to disrupt Sunday’s local elections.

At least 24 people are feared dead after heavy rain sparks deadly landslides in western Kenya.

Records are said to show a “paper trail” to a smear campaign against the ex-US ambassador to Ukraine.

Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Añez has agreed to meet with opposition groups Saturday to “bring peace to the country” after weeks of deadly political clashes.

Halfway through the spaghetti course, the siren went off: what sounded like a wartime air raid alarm, plus two long, science fiction-like warbling sounds, echoing from the surrounding church towers.

More than 4 million Hong Kongers will vote for hundreds of district council seats Sunday in what is being framed as a referendum on the protests which have roiled the Asian financial hub for almost six months.