President Muhammadu Buhari made the announcement after an emotional meeting with some of the girls’ families Thursday.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker lauded the Schengen Agreement as one of the bloc's biggest achievements.
According to reports, the drug, developed by a European laboratory in northwestern France, was a cannabis-based painkiller.
The local community has reported that 32 people died of starvation in the last 30 days in Madaya.
The news comes just a day after the World Health Organization declared the deadly outbreak over in West Africa.
Beijing claims almost all of the energy-rich waters of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of maritime trade passes each year.
Amid worries of a global oil glut, Iran has pledged to begin pumping up to half a million barrels of extra crude per day post-sanctions.
Indonesian authorities identified one of the attackers — Afif Sunakim — in the terrorist incident that left two civilians dead Thursday.
Militants rammed a suicide car bomb into the gates of the base in Ceel Cado, 340 miles west of Mogadishu, reportedly killing dozens of soldiers.
Heidi Hong Piao admitted to having agreed with others to funnel illegal payments to John Ashe, former president of the U.N. General Assembly.
Roughly 70 percent of firearms seized from Mexican drug traffickers can be traced to the United States, a U.S. government report says.
After a coordinated attack in Jakarta, the Islamic State group will have a hard time winning support in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
As Iran prepares its oil industry for sanction relief that will come very soon, record-low oil prices could significantly hinder its financial success.
The new website tracks problems faced by Muslim passengers on airplanes and at airports.
The man was killed during a police raid after the November 2015 Paris attacks.
The Atlantic hurricane season is normally June through November; Alex is the first January Atlantic hurricane in decades.
The rumor that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe suffered a heart attack is a "grim lie," his spokesman said Thursday.
Just five years after ditching mandatory military service, Sweden is considering bringing it back to reverse a shortfall in defense numbers and skills.
Nearly 200 Cubans were granted transit visas by Mexico as they attempted to make their way to the U.S.
A member of the House Armed Services Committee believes Iran may have gained access to information on board the two boats Tehran seized Tuesday.
Japanese aircraft returning from piracy flights around Somalia will also monitor China’s expanding presence in the contested waters.
Analysts don’t expect the deadly, ISIS-claimed attacks in Indonesia’s capital to derail the country’s economic growth outlook.
Recent terrorist attacks on tourists in Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia could push vacationers westward this year.
The measures expected to be announced Thursday are part of a plan to revive the North African nation’s waning tourism industry.
Germany’s economy performed extraordinarily well last year, and that could be good news for hundreds of thousands of refugees.
The terror threat is a far cry from war-torn Libya. But experts said Morocco is at risk as the Islamic State group looks to expand on Europe’s doorstep.
Thursday’s Paris-style attacks, the first one by the group in Indonesia, have confirmed fears that citizens are returning from conflict zones to launch attacks at home.
The World Heath Organization announced Thursday that Liberia was free of the deadly virus but warned that "more flare-ups are expected."
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in the volatile Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.
Social media served as a popular platform to plan marches in the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.