In the dusty village of Dudko, farmers and villagers are desperate for new currency notes after the Indian government banned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes last week in an effort to flush black money out of the economy.

At least four people were killed early Saturday in an explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, NATO said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the major security breach.

Citing past praise by US president-elect Donald Trump for his reforms, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili launched a new political party in Ukraine yesterday to fight corruption, just days after resigning bitterly as a regional governor.

Donald Trump yesterday shook up his White House transition team, appointing running mate Mike Pence to head the process of filling key administration posts, and demoting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to a deputy role.

French President Francois Hollande and Britain’s Prince Harry led commemorations as the two nations marked Armistice Day yesterday to remember those killed in war.

Turkey has detained the board chairman of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, according to the paper, which has been the target of an intensifying crackdown since July’s failed coup.

Pope Francis has asked an audience of homeless people to forgive those Christians who “look the other way”.

Cocaine dusted the vinyl flooring of the drab third-storey conference room at Nairobi’s CID headquarters as Kenya’s top narcotics cop sliced open another kilogramme slab of the drugs.

A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country’s most prized lion by an American dentist, his lawyer said yesterday.

The head of South Africa’s state-owned power company Eskom announced his resignation yesterday in a corruption scandal that has embroiled President Jacob Zuma.

The South Korean government called for calm yesterday ahead of a mass rally against President Park Geun-hye – expected to be one of the largest seen in Seoul since the pro-democracy protests of the 1980s.

China will never allow any part of its territory to break off, President Xi Jinping said yesterday, within a week of reining in Hong Kong independence moves and ignoring Taiwan’s urging to heed democratic aspirations in the Asian financial hub.