Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them.

The Federal Government on Wednesday approved N9.16 billion for the execution of three projects.

Russian road policemen dismantle patrol car to rescue kitten.

Soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads outside Zimbabwe parliament and other key government buildings in capital Harare hours after the military seized power.

The UK is withdrawing patrol ships from overseas to deal with a surge in crossings of the English Channel. Opposition politicians accuse the government of pumping up the issue for political gain.

Lisbon is home to thousands of feral cats, as well as many rats. The city has begun relocating the felines to known "rodent hotbeds," where it plans to send them out on rat patrol.

Twenty-four Malian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded in an attack on an army patrol in northern Mali on Monday (November 18) in which 17 militants were also killed, a spokesman for the army said.

The rainy season is the best time to grow rice and corn in Borno, one of Nigeria's agricultural regions. But farmers are frequently targeted by Boko Haram attacks. In a bid to improve security in the region and reassure farmers, teams of so-called "Agro Rangers" were set up a year ago by authorities. The men, who are often volunteer militia or hunters, are recruited by the Nigerian civil defence. Our correspondent Moïse Gomis went on patrol with them on the outskirts of Maiduguri and elsewhere in Borno.

Soldiers patrol the beaches in Acapulco, on Mexico's Pacific coast, to ensure that tourists follow anti-Covid measures.

Law enforcement officers and members of the public rescued a 23-year-old undocumented immigrant and his two-year-old son who were struggling in the Salinity Canal near the US-Mexico border in Arizona, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. The father and his son were trying to swim across the canal when they got swept away by the rapid current.

Soldiers patrol through Yangon after the junta imposed martial law over six areas in the city, effectively putting nearly two million people under the direct control of military commanders.