Anadolu via Getty Images Nearly 400 people have been sentenced in Nigeria for links with militant Islamic groups following mass trials.
The convicts were given sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment after linked to Boko Haram or a rival splinter group, the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap).
The trials came at a time when the government is under intense pressure to curb rising insecurity in Africa's most
Reuters Protesters at an oil refinery in the Republic of Ireland have been pushed back by gardaí (police) using pepper spray, in an operation supported by the Irish Defence Forces.
The protesters have been blockading Whitegate Refinery in County Cork as part of demonstrations across the country against high fuel prices.
Gardaí moved in to gain entry to the oil refinery and said an operation was ongoing "to ensure critical supplies of fuel to maintain critical emergency public services, including ambulance
AFP via Getty Images Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won an election with 97.8% of the vote, keeping him at the helm of the strategically-placed Horn of Africa nation for a sixth term, preliminary official results show.
The 78-year-old's sole challenger Mohamed Farah Samatar got 2.19% of the vote, in a poll boycotted by most
EPA The British rock band Deep Purple met a long-time super fan in Tokyo on Friday - who just happened to be the Japanese prime minister.
"You are my god," Sanae Takaichi, a hard rock enthusiast, told the band's drummer Ian Paice, beaming as she handed him a pair of signed Japanese-made drumsticks.
An avid drummer herself, Takaichi played
Getty Images Fans of former baseball star Ichiro Suzuki were thrown a curveball when a statue of him broke as it was being unveiled outside the home of the Seattle Mariners on Friday.
As a blue tarp was pulled off it, audience members could hear a snapping noise as the bronze figure it was shrouding suddenly appeared to drop in height. Suzuki, immortalised with a broken bat, was revealed.
Suzuki, 52, standing in front of his likeness outside T-Mobile Park, pointed incredulously at the
Reuters The four astronauts who flew in Nasa's Artemis II mission around the Moon have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after a flawless return.
The crew are now safely aboard a waiting ship and recovering from a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans in history.
Their Orion spacecraft was travelling at more than 24,0
BBC Humanitarian organisations and journalists have expressed concerns after a leading satellite imagery company told its users it was restricting access to images of Iran and large parts of the Middle East following a request from the US government.
California-based Planet Labs initially introduced a 14-day delay on providing new imagery from the region in March. It has since moved to an "indefinite" restriction.
The decision has limited how journalists, humanitarian groups and analysts can use satellite images to assess the impact of the US
AFP via Getty Images No serving leader in the European Union has led their country for as long as Viktor Orbán. But after 16 years he faces his strongest challenge yet in 12 April elections, where most opinion polls suggest he is heading for defeat at the hands of former party insider, Péter Magyar.
Since 2010, Orbán has transformed Hungary into what the European Parliament has denounced as a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy". He appears uncertain how to describe his
Getty Images Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, one of the leading candidates in the race to be California's next governor, has denied allegations of sexual misconduct from former staff.
"These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor," he said in a statement after multiple women made allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape.
His opponents - and several supporters, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries - have called on him to leave the race.
Democrats will pick their