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EU urges Malta to reform judiciary after botched murder probe

The new European Commissioner for Justice told AFP Friday he wants to ensure Malta implements the EU's recommendations for judicial…
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Warning Iran, US slaps sanctions on Iraqi militia leaders

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on three Iranian-backed Iraqi militia leaders over a deadly crackdown on protests in…
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Greek youths demonstrate in memory of teen slain by police

Greek youths and far-left groups demonstrated in Athens and other cities on Friday in memory of a teenage boy killed…
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Zambian president allegedly involved in illegal timber trade: report

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu and other senior government officials have been accused of facilitating rosewood trafficking, according to an environmental…
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South Africa’s Tutu could be discharged next week

South Africa's Desmond Tutu could be discharged "early next week" after he was hospitalised with an infection, his family said…
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Militia beheads 16 people in new DR Congo massacre: civil society

Suspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
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US slaps sanctions on Iran-linked Iraqis over protest abuses

The United States on Friday announced sanctions on three Iranian-linked Iraqi militia leaders for allegedly assisting the crackdown on demonstrations…
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France’s pension reform: What would change?

French labour unions have vowed a wave of strikes against a pension overhaul promised by President Emmanuel Macron, a centrepiece…
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Thunberg urges climate action because ‘people are dying’

Teen activist Greta Thunberg on Friday urged world leaders gathered in Madrid for a UN climate conference to take urgent…
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Three killed, shooter dead in US navy base attack

A gunman opened fire on Friday at a US naval base -- the second such shooting in as many days…
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Slovakia’s former president charged with fraud amid election bid

Police said on Friday they had charged Slovakia's former president Andrej Kiska with tax fraud as the self-made millionaire is…
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At Auschwitz, Merkel bows head to Holocaust victims

Stony-faced and dressed in black, Germany's chancellor walked in silence along the railway tracks that brought prisoners to the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
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Postman, firefighter, teacher: the French defying Macron

More than 800,000 people took to the streets across France on Thursday on the first day of a nationwide strike…
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Ukraine president meets frontline troops ahead of Putin talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited frontline troops on Friday as he geared up for his first face-to-face talks with Russia's…
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‘Mega fire’ forms north of Sydney

Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a "mega fire" that is burning out of control across a swathe of…
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Three dead in building collapse in Kenyan capital

Three people died Friday and many more were feared trapped after a residential building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi,…
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Togo to hold elections in February next year

Togo will hold elections in February next year, a government decree said, when incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe is expected to…
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Slain Maltese reporter lived in fear, family says

The husband and son of a slain Maltese journalist said she had lived in fear as she investigated government corruption,…
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Nigerian activist re-arrested, hours after release: lawyer

Nigerian state security police on Friday re-arrested an opposition activist and former presidential candidate, a day after a court ordered…
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Exiled actress Farahani decries ‘massacre’ in Iran

Exiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has condemned what she called a "massacre" in her homeland, which has been rocked by…
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Gambian town mourns after Mauritania migrant boat sinking

Bereaved Gambians shouted in grief and sobbed Thursday as they recounted how their loved ones drowned attempting to reach Europe…
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Flashy Nairobi governor arrested for ‘economic crimes’

The flashy governor of Nairobi was arrested Friday after Kenya's chief prosecutor ordered his detention for alleged economic crimes. Governor…
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Militia beheads 16 people in new DR Congo massacre: civil society

Suspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…
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Algeria braces for more marches ahead of opposed presidential vote

Algeria braced for fresh demonstrations Friday, the last in a series of weekly marches before a presidential election opposed by…
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Russia ‘preparing’ Lavrov visit to Washington next week

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is preparing to visit Washington next week, a spokeswoman said Friday, which would be the…
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Russia hands anti-Putin blogger surprise suspended sentence

Russia on Friday handed an unusually lenient three-year suspended sentence to a student convicted of making calls for extremism on…
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Algeria braces for more marches ahead of opposed presidential vote

Algeria braced for fresh demonstrations Friday, the last in a series of weekly marches before a presidential election opposed by…
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Iraq’s top cleric says no role in talks on new PM as protests persist

Iraq's top Shiite cleric said Friday he had no role in talks on a new premier for the protest-hit country,…
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DR Congo survivors recount horror attacks by axe-wielding rebels

"Those who didn't flee like myself were hacked to pieces with machetes," said nine-year-old Edvige Kalivanda, whose parents were butchered…
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Greece on high alert on anniversary of teen shooting

Authorities in Greece were on high alert Friday in case annual rallies commemorating the fatal police shooting of a teenage…
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