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Orban calls for Ukraine ceasefire to speed up peac...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban urged Kyiv on Tuesday to work towards a "quick ceasefire" in Ukraine that could pave the way...
European stocks, euro retreat ahead of major elect...
European stock markets and the euro retreated Tuesday on concerns about potential economic fallout should the far-right win power...
Candidates exit French runoff to block far right f...
French candidates faced a Tuesday deadline to stay in or quit the weekend's runoff election, with over 160 withdrawing so far in a...
New Dutch PM sworn in with mission to curb asylum
Dutch King Willem-Alexander swore in former spy chief Dick Schoof as new prime minister Tuesday, at the head of a right-wing coali...
Kenya police fire tear gas at small rallies in cap...
Kenyan police fired tear gas to scatter small crowds in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, AFP reporters saw, after youth activists c...
Dozens protest in Kenya with riot police out in fo...
Dozens of Kenyans took to the streets Tuesday under a heavy police presence, with many shops shuttered as youth activists called f...
What's behind the dispute between Benin and Niger?
Benin and Niger are locked in a growing diplomatic row that has damaged their economies and seen Niger's military rulers switch of...
French left, Macron scramble to block far-right wi...
Candidates in France on Tuesday faced a deadline to register for the run-off round of a high-stakes parliamentary election, as Pre...
Cambodia sentences green campaigners for 'plotting...
A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced 10 environmentalists to between six and eight years in jail for plotting to commit crimes i...
'Can't go back': Myanmar conscription exiles strug...
When Myanmar's junta announced a conscription law to help crush a popular pro-democracy uprising, Khaing knew there was only one w...
Hungary's Orban visits Ukraine with aid tensions r...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday for a surprise visit to the war-torn country by the EU and NAT...
The Indian women campaigning to criminalise marita...
Raped by her husband on her wedding night aged 17, Divya described her repeated suffering -- an all-too-common account in India, p...
Kenya braces for new protests after dozens killed...
Kenya was bracing on Tuesday for fresh protest action against the government after anti-tax hike demonstrations last month descend...
Israel strikes southern Gaza after ordering evacua...
Israel carried out fresh strikes in southern Gaza on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of Palestinians to flee after the army once again o...
Dollar strengthens as bets on Trump presidency ris...
The dollar rose Tuesday and Asia equities were mixed as investors weighed the possibility of another Donald Trump presidency after...
First Palestinian Olympic boxer fights hurdles bef...
Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his Cairo-based coach -- a Gazan who cannot travel to him in the...
Ex-spy chief to be sworn in as new Dutch PM on mis...
Former spy chief Dick Schoof becomes the new Dutch prime minister Tuesday, leading a right-wing coalition cabinet on a mission to...
Jill Biden: A first lady in the trenches
Ever present by the US president's side after his calamitous debate -- and foursquare behind him as he vowed to fight on in his re...
Biden blasts landmark Supreme Court ruling on Trum...
President Joe Biden warned Monday that the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling on presidential immunity sets a "dangerous precedent...
Bot-like accounts spreading 'hate' during UK elect...
Bot-like social media accounts have spread "disinformation and hate" in tens of thousands of posts viewed an estimated 150 million...
Haiti violence displacing one child every minute:...
Violence raging in troubled Haiti is forcibly displacing one child every minute, on average, with some 300,000 already affected, t...
Panama's new president vows to end migrant 'transi...
Jose Raul Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama's new president, with the right-leaning leader pledging to make his Central America...
Mauritania, stable outlier in turbulent region, re...
Mauritania's incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert n...
Supreme Court says Trump has some immunity, furthe...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a decision set to...
New Caledonia activist says he is 'political priso...
An indigenous Kanak pro-independence activist from the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia said Monday that he considered hi...
Israel orders southern Gaza evacuation after rocke...
Israel's army yet again ordered the evacuation of parts of southern Gaza on Monday following a rare rocket barrage claimed by mili...
Taliban told to 'include women' in public life at...
Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as...
Games organisers will hope for peaceful reaction t...
The key risk to the Paris Games from the political uncertainty gripping France is public disturbances that could impact the alread...
Nigeria weekend suicide bomb attack toll climbs to...
The death toll from multiple suicide bombings in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza over the weekend has risen to 32, the cou...
French left, Macron race to prevent far-right take...
Emmanuel Macron's centrist camp and a left-wing alliance were on Monday battling to prevent the far right from taking an absolute...
Trump advisor Bannon reports to jail to serve sent...
Steve Bannon, a prominent right-wing figure in American politics and former senior advisor to Donald Trump, reported to prison Mon...
Moscow takes two more east Ukrainian villages
Moscow on Monday claimed to have captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, but acknowledged that tens of thousands of people...