A South African court charged Julius Malema, a renegade of the ruling African National Congress and opponent of President Jacob Zuma, with money laundering on Wednesday. Prosecutors did not file any other charges. Source: Reuters

Protesters have stormed the grounds of the United States embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. They were demonstrating against an anti-Islam film made in the US, which has provoked anger around the Muslim world. On Tuesday, the US ambassador to Libya was among several people killed in a fire started after the US consulate in [...]

Islamist rebels in Mali have taken over a town in the middle of the country, a rebel leader and a resident said Saturday. Douentza is in central Mali, about 110 miles (175 kilometers) from the key town of Sevare, which is in a buffer zone between the rebel-occupied north and the south. Chaos has rocked [...]

Miners at South Africa’s Lonmin-run platinum mine in Marikana are beginning to return to work after a strike in which 44 people were killed, many by police. Al Jazeera’s Tania Page, reporting from Rustenburg near Marikana in the North West province, said on Monday the miners were returning to work to heed the new deadline issued by management. [...]

Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say. Armed men broke down the door of the 15th-Century Sidi Yahia mosque, a resident told the BBC. The Ansar Dine group, which is said to have links to al-Qaeda, seized control of the city earlier [...]

Bangladesh Bank hopes that the country will soon overcome the present negative export growth trend. “We are hopeful about regaining export growth as large European Union (EU) economies like Germany and France are still withstanding against Euro zone crisis,” said the Selected Macroeconomic Indicators of central bank recently. It said that a positive development in [...]

Euphoric jubilation spilled into a second day Monday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where revelers celebrated the election of Egypt’s first democratically elected president. But with the hopes of the Egyptian revolution resting on President-Elect Mohamed Morsi’s shoulders, the former Muslim Brotherhood member faces an array of challenges both at home and abroad. For the moment, [...]

(Reuters) – Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president on Sunday, the first they have chosen freely and who may well be from the Muslim Brotherhood, which Mubarak and fellow generals spent a lifetime fighting. The result of last weekend’s run-off, due in an election committee news [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama urged Sudan and South Sudan to resolve their outstanding issues through dialogue and avoid a return to war amid soaring tensions between the neighboring nations. Clashes have escalated between Sudan and South Sudan in recent days following Sudan airstrikes targeting the South and the latter seizing the disputed oil-rich region of [...]

Nathaniel Raymond is the first to admit that he has an unusual job description. “I count tanks from space for George Clooney,” said the tall, easygoing Massachusetts native as he sat in a conference room in front of a map of the Sudanese region of South Kordofan. Close by, pins and ink scrawlings on the [...]