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Burkina Faso's president has refused to step down, insisting he will stay in power and lead a transitional government that was announced following violent protests.

China is hosting an international conference on Afghanistan's security and re-construction, highlighting China's growing role in Afghanistan as U.S. and NATO forces depart.

Malala Yousafzai.

Iraqi Kurdish fighters are one their way to the northern Syrian town of Kobani to help Kurds there battle the Islamic State militants who have been trying for weeks to take control of the area.

Zambia’s fifth president, Michael Sata, has died in London, where he had been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness. He was 77. During his three-year term, he promised to wipe out corruption and hold foreign investors in check. His critics say he got some things done, such as improving the nation’s infrastructure. His friends and colleagues praise him as a man of action.

MEPs meeting Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko

Stronger democracy and a "strategic choice for peace and Europe" was the Ukrainian people's message in Sunday's elections to the Verkhovna Rada, said Andrej Plenkovic (EPP, HR), head of the EP delegation at the international election monitors'.

Heavy shelling rocked the outskirts of the pro-Russian rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine Monday, one day after the country held a parliamentary election.

The death toll from last week's shooting spree at a high school in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington has risen to two.

Syrian activists said more than 800 people have been killed in ground fighting in Kobani in the six-week battle between Islamic State militants and Kurdish fighters for control of the Syrian town just south of the Turkish border.