Porcupy implements the Crested Porcupine Optimizer (CPO), a nature-inspired metaheuristic that mimics porcupine defense mechanisms for optimization. It offers both object-oriented and procedural ...

US President Donald Trump’s targeted attacks against three of the world’s major emerging economies are prompting leaders of those countries to forge closer ties and push back against his aggressive ...

Northern Nigeria plagued by 15 years of insurgencies Catholic school kidnapping among the worst since Chibok Kidnappers demand ransom for seized worshippers Kidnapping attacks motivated by money, ...

GOMA, Congo — An Islamic State-backed rebel group killed 89 people during attacks on multiple villages in eastern Congo, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country said Friday. In the village of ...

An interior view of the Christ Apostolic Church, the day after an attack by gunmen in which people were killed and the pastor and some worshippers kidnapped, in the town of Eruku, Kwara state, Nigeria ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary's School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria's Niger state, the ...

KINSHASA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Lubero territory, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the ...

A grizzly bear attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, Canada, injuring 11 people, two of them critically. The attack happened Thursday afternoon in ...

Celebrated photographer and conservationist Beverly Joubert is lucky to be alive. She died — four times by her husband Dereck’s count — working in Botswana in March 2017. The Jouberts were in the bush ...

A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted ...

Protestors of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Revolutionary Party) sing in Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Nov. 1, 2025. (Credit: Brian Inganga/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – The leadership ...

Following on from the cyber-attacks that yesterday affected multiple government websites, Kenya is on high alert. After arguably the country’s most severe cyber-attack in recent years, the ...