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A 47-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of having been in contact with the perpetrator of Thursday's deadly knife attack in Nice, a judicial source said. On Thursday, a knife-wielding attacker shouting "Allahu Akbar"…

Assailants killed at least 18 people and burned down a church in a village in eastern Congo on Wednesday night, a civil rights group and local committee said, blaming fighters from an Islamist militia group operating in the area. The…

The authorities in Uganda have banned a coalition of more than 60 organisations formed to monitor the country’s 2021 general elections on grounds that it is illegal. Uganda’s National Bureau for Non-governmental Organisations - which…

Three people have been killed in a knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice, police say. President Emmanuel Macron denounced the "Islamist terrorist attack" at the Notre-Dame basilica after visiting the scene in the…

A company in Singapore has developed a breathalyser test for the new coronavirus which it says will enable people to know whether they are infected in under a minute. Breathonix, a startup firm from the National University of Singapore,…

The Minneapolis teenager who filmed the police killing of George Floyd is being honored with a prestigious courage award from PEN America, the literary and human rights organization.  Darnella Frazier, 17, will receive the 2020…

Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, has declared Saturday a day of national mourning for seven students brutally murdered in Kumba, in the restive south-west region. The children were killed last Saturday at the Mother Francisca International…

In Germany, it is being termed a "lockdown light" for November while in France a four-week lockdown is expected but less severe than in the spring. Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to decide with state leaders whether to shut bars,…

Nigeria's information minister said "some form of regulation" could be imposed on social media just a week after protesters spread images and videos of a deadly shooting using Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Images, video and an…

On his sixth attempt Wavel Ramkalawan, an Anglican cleric, has become Seychelles' president ending decades in opposition, but as Tim Ecott reports from the Indian Ocean archipelago - he now has to bring the country together.…