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A team of international observers has said irregularities in DR Congo's presidential election were so serious that the results "lack credibility". The Carter Center highlighted numerous problems in the vote-counting process. The official results announced...

Dmitri Medvedev aura attendu 24 heures pour réagir aux allégations de fraude électorale émises par l’opposition. Et c’est sur sa page Facebook que le président russe a décidé dimanche 11 décembre de répondre aux revendications formulées lors des grands...

Thousands of people have attended the biggest anti-government rally in the Russian capital Moscow since the fall of the Soviet Union. As many as 50,000 people gathered on an island near the Kremlin to condemn alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections...

Un calme précaire règne à Kinshasa ce samedi 10 décembre, au lendemain des incidents survenus après l'annonce de la victoire du président sortant Joseph Kabila à la présidentielle du 28 novembre. Une réélection contestée par son principal rival Etienne...

The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes...

Cinq Casques bleus français ont été blessés vendredi dans l'explosion d'une bombe, placée sur une route dans le sud du Liban, ce qu'Alain Juppé a qualifié de « lâche attentat ». La bombe a explosé à Bourj al-Shamali, près du port de Tyr, endommageant...

WE JOURNALISTS are probably too bleary-eyed after a sleepless night to understand the full significance of what has just happened in Brussels. What is clear is that after a long, hard and rancorous negotiation, at about 5am this morning the European Union...

The UN office for Somalia is moving to Mogadishu from Nairobi, UN head Ban Ki-moon has announced on a rare visit to the Somali capital. The UN secretary general is the highest-ranking foreign official to visit the war-torn city for many years. He was...

Officiellement, le président bissau-guinéen, Malam Bacaï Sanha, va mieux. Selon les services de la présidence, il serait même sorti de l'unité de soins intensifs de l'hôpital du Val de Grâce à Paris où il est actuellement soigné. Le président avait été...

International Cris GroupA week after presidential and legislative polls, the Democratic Republic of Congo faces a political crisis that could plunge it back into major violence. Preliminary results, expected today, risk sparking opposition protests that,...

Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change. Rich countries have pledged up to $100 billion a year...

Kenya's parliament has approved the integration of government troops in Somalia into the African Union (AU) force fighting militant Islamists. The decision comes after the AU last week asked Kenyan troops to join its 9,000-strong force in Somalia to battle...

The US has publicly declared it will fight discrimination against gays and lesbians abroad by using foreign aid and diplomacy to encourage reform. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience of diplomats in Geneva: "Gay rights are human rights"....

Global Witness a annoncé aujourd’hui sa décision de quitter le Processus de Kimberley, dispositif international de certification instauré dans le but d’éliminer le commerce de diamants du sang. En refusant d’évoluer et de se pencher sur les liens inéluctables...

At least 250 anti-Putin protesters have been arrested in demonstrations Tuesday in Russia's capital, Moscow police told CNN. The arrests came as demonstrators protested against the results of Sunday's parliamentary election. Thousands of protesters had...