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SIERRA Leone said on Wednesday it would reopen the country’s schools on March 30, after a seven-month shutdown to limit the spread of the Ebola virus. Classrooms have been empty since the

A BURUNDI court denied bail Wednesday to a radio station boss accused of complicity in the murder of three Italian nuns, his lawyer said. The arrest of Bob Rugurika, director of the

FRENCH comedian Dieudonne told a court Wednesday he condemned last month’s Paris attacks “without any ambiguity” as he stood trial on charges of condoning terrorism over a comment suggesting he sympathised with

AL-JAZEERA journalist Peter Greste arrived home in Australia on Thursday after his release from Egypt where he was detained for more than 400 days, an AFP reporter at Brisbane airport said. Greste,

SAUDI Arabia’s new King Salman on Wednesday called the burning alive of a Jordanian fighter pilot “inhuman and contrary to Islam”. In a message of condolence to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, he

GLAXOSMITHKLINE’S net profits almost halved last year, hit partly by a large Chinese fine following a bribery probe, the British drugmaker said Wednesday. Profit after tax dived to £2.76 billion ($4.20 billion,

GREEK leaders pressed their case for debt relief Wednesday in Brussels and Frankfurt, saying they were optimistic about a deal but needed urgent help from the European Central Bank to “stay afloat”.

THE ECOWAS Judicial Council on Wednesday installed seven new judges of the ECOWAS Court at a ceremony to launch its 2015 legal year. The judges who were installed by Justice Mamadou Kone,

THE chief executive of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, Graca Foster, resigned Wednesday along with several top executives as the company reels from a massive corruption scandal, officials said. Petrobras said in a

ONLY about a third of the $2.89 billion (2.52 billion euros) in aid money pledged to fight the Ebola virus in west Africa was actually delivered, according to an analysis published by