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French football legend Just Fontaine, the all-time top scorer in a single World Cup tournament, has died aged 89, his family said on Wednesday.

It took a bang, and just seconds to turn a long holiday weekend into a nightmare for hundreds of Greeks caught up in a deadly… Read More »‘A bang, then chaos’: Greece in shock after deadliest train crash in decades

Fighting for the defence of the eastern city of Bakhmut is intensifying, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address on Tuesday. Russian… Read More »🔴 Live: Russian forces gain ground in bid to encircle Ukraine’s Bakhmut

Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls needed hospital treatment on Tuesday after another mysterious poisoning, a news agency reported, the latest in a spate of suspected attacks… Read More »Dozens of Iranian schoolgirls treated in latest mystery poisoning

President Emmanuel Macron kicks off a tour of Central Africa on Wednesday in a diplomatic drive to test out a new “responsible relationship” with the… Read More »France’s Macron to tout ‘responsible relationship’ with Africa on four-nation tour

After fighting military rule in the 1990s, Bola Tinubu, 70, feels entitled to become Nigeria’s president.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors… Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell appeals US court to throw out sex trafficking conviction

Bola Tinubu, 70, is declared the winner of Nigeria’s election despite opposition calls for a rerun.

Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was on Wednesday declared winner of a disputed weekend presidential election by the electoral commission after defeating two of… Read More »Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Tinubu wins presidential election

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.