International

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departs this week on a trip that will take her both to Africa’s newest nation, South Sudan, and on a visit to the continent’s elder statesman, 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.

The UN Security Council has expressed concern that drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau has increased since the coup in April.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers in public schools and colleges in Tanzania went on strike Monday after the government and the teachers’ union failed to agree on the teachers’ pay rise.

The former graduate student accused of opening fire at a Denver-area screening of the latest “Batman” film, killing 12 people, has been formally charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder and 116 counts of attempted murder.

Syrian troops and rebels fought pitched battles near an intelligence headquarters in Aleppo, a watchdog said, as a military offensive in Syria's commercial capital raged into a fourth day.

Two more people, including a child, are suspected to have died of the Ebola virus while 11 more have been put in isolation in western Uganda where the deadly haemorrhagic fever was first confirmed last Friday, health workers said on Tuesday.