Goma /AFP At least 34 civilians were killed on Sunday in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militia on the Hutu village of Luhanga. ...

  WEST PALM BEACH / AP For months Donald Trump called the presidential election “rigged.” The president-elect has a different word — “scam” — for the recount effort aimed at revisiting the vote in three pivotal battleground states. “The people have spoken and the election is over,” Trump declared on Saturday in his first comments about the growing effort to ...

  Colombo / AFP Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has asked Donald Trump to pressure the UN Human Rights Council to drop war crimes allegations against the country’s troops. Sirisena’s office said on Sunday he had sent a “special message” to president-elect Trump seeking US intervention at the council, where Sri Lanka faces censure for wartime atrocities. “I sent a special ...