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Doctors Without Borders says woman killed in ambush in Central African Republic
Doctors Without Borders said on Saturday that a woman was killed in an ambush by her team in the Central African Republic, while the France-based medical charity is already reeling from the murder this week of three staff members in…
UN says 400,000 are approaching famine in Madagascar amid successive droughts
The UN's World Food Program says southern Madagascar is experiencing successive droughts that have left 400,000 people starving and have already led to deaths from severe hunger.
Ethiopia-Tigray conflict: Three Doctors Without Borders employees killed in Tigray
In this edition, the spike in violence in the Tigray region continues with the murder of three humanitarian workers. Our correspondent in Addis-Abebas brings us more about the story. 15 UN peacekeepers were also injured in Mali. The…
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders says three staff members have died in Ethiopia’s…
Three employees of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a Spaniard and two Ethiopians, were "brutally…
More than a dozen UN peacekeepers in Mali injured in car bomb attack
A car bomb attack in northern Mali has injured 15 UN peacekeepers, the United Nations said Friday in the latest attack…
Civilians killed by ‘motorcycle radars’ in western Niger
At least 10 people were killed on Thursday in Niger's western province of Tillaberi, where civilians are increasingly…
One dead, dozens missing after high-rise collapse near Miami
A wing of a 12-story beachfront apartment building roared into a city outside Miami on Thursday, killing at least one person and leaving residents trapped in rubble and twisted metal. Rescuers pulled out dozens of survivors and continued to…
Canada shocked by discovery of 751 graves near indigenous school
An indigenous group in Canada's Saskatchewan province has found 751 unmarked graves near a former Catholic boarding school, the group said Thursday, just weeks after a similar discovery in British Columbia. Canada's History of "Systemic…
Does this video show victims of a police crackdown after the elections in Iran?
Three men lie on the ground, unconscious and probably dead. A video shared on social media in Iran on June 21 purported to show how the country's new government is already violently oppressing civilians. Although the video is recent and…
France, Germany Propose Putin Overture to a Divided EU
France and Germany on Thursday tried to convince EU leaders to restart regular meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a reset strategy in a controversial bid that threatens to divide the 27-member bloc, most notably the…
Fun facts from the Euro 2021 group stage
At the end of the Euro 2021 group stage on Wednesday, 36 of the tournament's 51 matches had already been played with 94 goals to date.
Leaders of 16 EU countries call for bloc to fight LGBT discrimination
In an open letter to European Union leaders ahead of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, leaders of 16 member states called on the bloc to fight anti-LGBT discrimination, saying that "respect and tolerance are at the heart of the European…
European human rights group ‘extremely concerned’ about conditions in French prisons,…
The Council of Europe on Thursday focused on detention conditions in French prisons and police stations and said it was "extremely concerned" at what it found during a fact-finding mission.
Ingrid Betancourt faces ex-FARC kidnappers nearly 20 years after kidnapping
For the first time since she was rescued 13 years ago from FARC guerrillas who had held her hostage in the Colombian jungle for more than six years, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt was able to confront her captors on…
France, UK and US accuse Russian mercenaries of human rights abuses in CAR
The United States, Britain and France accused Russian mercenaries on Wednesday of operating alongside Central African Republic forces and committing human rights violations against civilians and obstructing UN peacekeeping — charges that…
Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Tahar Rahim Join Spike Lee on Cannes Film Festival Jury
"The Serpent" star Tahar Rahim, American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and "Parasite" lead Song Kang-Ho are on the jury at…