Gunmen stormed a hotel hosting an EU military training mission in Mali's capital, before one was killed by security guards, the government and a mission source said. Four attackers stormed the hotel owned by Mali's \"Azalai\" chain at around 1830 GMT, the EU mission source said, before they escaped under return fire from security guards.
Two pieces of debris found in Mozambique are \"almost certainly from MH370\", Australia's transport minister said, following analysis by technical specialists probing the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
The scandal-tainted UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic said Friday that fresh allegations of sex abuse by its soldiers had surfaced in the centre of the country.
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Christian and Hindu refugees and declared them all children of the same God, as he emphasised solidarity with other faiths at a time of increased anti-Muslim sentiments following the attacks on Brussels which killed over 30.
Belgian police shot a suspect as part of a huge European terror crackdown that yielded several arrests as France's president said a jihadist network that targeted both Paris and Brussels was being \"destroyed\".
With Pakistan moving towards tactical nuclear weapons, there is an increasingly higher risk of nuclear theft, a US think-tank report has warned ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in US later this month.
Expressing concern over India's recent ballistic missile launch, the US has said such actions could potentially \"increase\" the risk to nuclear security and have an impact on regional security.
Israel's counter terrorism bureau has raised the alert level on Turkey stressing that the country is “unsafe†for its citizens after three of them were killed and 11 wounded in a suicide bombing in Istanbul.
Huge explosions rocked the Brussels airport and the metro subway system, prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. At least 35 people were reported dead and over 200 injured in the attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State group.
Defence ministers and officials from 27 Arab and African states agreed to bolster cooperation on counter-terrorism, in a meeting held at an Egyptian resort town. The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) members agreed on \"strengthening cooperation in counter-terrorism,\" according to the draft resolution read out by Egypt's Defence Minister Sedki Sobhi.
South Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, amid heightened tensions on the divided peninsula, using a propaganda tool that usually sparks threats of reprisals.
China declared a red alert at Shenzhen International Airport to deal with irate passengers after cancellation of over 200 flights due to heavy rains and thunderstorms.
Thousands of hardline Islamists staged protests across Bangladesh against an imminent court hearing on scrapping the state religion of the Muslim-majority nation.
Here's a look at the important events in the world this week.