Nigeria will Wednesday begin withdrawal of some of its troops from Mali because they are needed back home, where the country is battling a deadly Islamist insurgency. t was not clear how many troops would be pulled from

Macedonia remains firmly engaged to its aspirations for NATO membership and it meets all objective criteria for the accession in the organisation, said Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov after meeting

Pakistan on Tuesday elected businessman Mamnoon Hussain as its 12th president, state TV said, to replace