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France and the United Kingdom have agreed on a multiyear financial package to stop migration across the Channel, days after the UK government drew criticism for a bill barring unauthorised arrivals. As part of the deal announced on…

Officials in the Chinese city of Xi'an have sparked a backlash by saying they may turn to lockdowns "when necessary" to combat future flu outbreaks. Xi'an will lock down areas and shut schools if an outbreak poses a "severe threat",…

Santiago, Chile – Siomara Molina stands on the steps of the Chilean National Library on a busy street in the heart of Chile’s capital. Waving fists in the air and wearing green scarves, symbolic of the Latin American movement for…

Turkey will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially announced. “Our nation will go to the polls to elect its president and parliamentarians on May 14,” Erdogan said…

Georgia’s parliament has dropped plans for a “foreign agents” bill that triggered a major domestic political crisis and threatened to derail the nation’s bid for closer ties with Europe. On Friday, the bill was voted down in the second…

The first aid plane has arrived in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the EU's new operation to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict there. It comes after clashes in the region…

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned of a growing humanitarian catastrophe in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting between government forces and armed groups has caused hundreds of thousands of…

New York prosecutors have offered Donald Trump an opportunity to testify to a grand jury – signalling an investigation into hush money the former president allegedly paid a porn star may soon end in a criminal case. The New York grand…

The UN has condemned the reported ambush and brutal killing of at least 37 civilians in Mukdolo village in Ngala Local Government Area of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State. As we reported earlier, dozens of villagers were shot dead in…

A gunman opened fire and killed at least eight people at a Jehovah’s Witnesses centre in the German city of Hamburg. An unspecified number of others were wounded, some seriously, on Thursday evening in the attack that stunned Germany’s…