Conscription in Eritrea continues to be indefinite despite the government saying last year it would be limited to 18 months, Amnesty International says.

Cameroon's defence minister says his troops have killed 100 members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram and freed 900 hostages.

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been wounded in a gunfight at a meeting of militants in the Pakistani city of Quetta, reports say.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accused of hypocrisy by the opposition for using taxpayers' money to pay for child care.

The policeman who shot and killed a 12-year-old waving a pellet gun says he thought the gun was real.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner locked up for 13 years who was thought to be a member of al-Qaeda is found to be a victim of mistaken identity.

Police search two houses in Sydney, Australia, for firearms, following suspected threat to attack a Sydney police station.

Five sponsors of football's world governing body Fifa write to its executive committee to demand "independent oversight" of reforms.