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Hundreds of residents of the French town of Annecy gathered Sunday to honour the people who rushed to stop a man accused of stabbing six people, including four toddlers, at a playground last week. Issued…

From our special correspondent in Diyarbakir, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s alliance with Huda-Par, a hardline Kurdish Islamist party with a shadowy past, for the 2023 vote sparked howls of condemnations. It…

Issued on: 22/05/2023 - 09:33 The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week's legislative and local elections, according to official results on…

Issued on: 13/05/2023 - 14:59 Mauritanians voted on Saturday in the first legislative and local elections since 2019 when President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani came to power…

Issued on: 20/04/2023 - 10:49Modified: 20/04/2023 - 10:52 A Tunisian investigative judge ordered on Thursday the imprisonment of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of main…

A month before Turkey goes to the polls on May 14, the country’s inflation crisis is a major campaign theme as the six main opposition parties rally around Kemal Kilicdaroglu to create the strongest challenge yet to…

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo made headlines again this week for mocking Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomenei, angering the Iranian regime and prompting it to close a French research institute in Tehran. The…

Issued on: 25/12/2022 - 14:50 Three foreign aid groups, including Save the Children, announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the…

Issued on: 19/12/2022 - 18:10 Three police officers were killed in a restive area of southern Jordan on Monday while trying to arrest suspects in last week’s slaying of a…

Issued on: 07/12/2022 - 17:15Modified: 07/12/2022 - 17:19 An Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such…