Reading Time: < 1 minuteVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose nearly 12 years in office have been marked by deep economic and social crisis, was sworn in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Delta flight with more than 200 passengers leaving Atlanta was forced to abort takeoff because of an engine issue and deploy…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBenin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have said.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAuthorities in northern Nigeria’s largest city have begun evacuating more than 5,000 street children seen as a “security threat” and a growing…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo doctors in Malaysia have been ordered to pay RM6m (£1m) to the family of a woman who bled to death after one…