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President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he could win a third term in office if he ran again, but is barred by the Constitution. “I think if I ran again I could win. But I can’t!” Obama said. Obama’s quip came during a speech to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the first address to the group by a ...

A Tripoli court sentenced several officials in the former regime of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to death Tuesday — including Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi in absentia — drawing criticism from the U.N. human rights office. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was ordered to face a firing squad for his role in trying to quash the 2011 revolution that led to ...

A wedding in Afghanistan turned deadly Sunday night when a gunfight broke out, killing 21 people, an Afghan official said. Two armed groups got into a dispute at the wedding in the northeastern province of Baghlan, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. The dueling groups fired on each other, Sediqqi said. But the bullets also killed guests who were not ...

Turkey’s air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants and Kurdish PKK separatists could “change the regional game”, the prime minister has said. Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no plans to send ground troops into Syria and that air strikes were meant to support moderate rebels fighting IS. On Sunday Turkish jets again attacked PKK camps in northern Iraq. Nato is ...

The Syrian army has been forced to give up some areas in order to retain others in the war against rebels, now in its fifth year, President Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged. The Syrian leader also said the army faced a shortage of soldiers. A day earlier, he declared an amnesty for draft-dodgers and deserters. The conflict is thought to have ...

US President Barack Obama is to conclude his visit to Kenya with a televised address at a sports stadium in the capital, Nairobi. The BBC’s Karen Allen in Nairobi says he is expected to underscore the shared values of the two countries but also touch on human rights. On Saturday, President Obama discussed security issues with his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru ...

The US president has urged Kenya to hold “visible” trials to tackle corruption, which he said could be the “biggest impediment” to further growth. After talks in Nairobi, President Obama and Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta said they were “united against terrorism” and efforts to deal with it. But the two leaders differed sharply in their positions on gay rights. While ...

US President Barack Obama has told the BBC he will continue to deliver his “blunt message” to African leaders about gay rights and discrimination. “I am not a fan of discrimination and bullying of anybody on the basis of race… religion… sexual orientation or gender,” he said. Mr Obama is on his way to visit his ancestral home of Kenya ...

President Barack Obama has admitted that his failure to pass “common sense gun safety laws” in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency. In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said it was “distressing” not to have made progress on the issue “even in the face of repeated mass killings”. He vowed to keep trying, but the ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended a nuclear deal with Iran, calling it the “only viable option” to a peaceful resolution of the issue. He told the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee: “We set out to dismantle [Iran’s] ability to build a nuclear weapon and we achieved that.” Mr Kerry is expected to face tough questions as Congress ...