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The tailors relying on generators in Nigeria’s oil-rich region – a key electoral battle ground.

Actor Alec Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday for showing a “reckless” disregard for safety that led to the fatal shooting of cinematographer… Read More »Baldwin charged for ‘recklessness’ in fatal on-set ‘Rust’ shooting

Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age, signalling the… Read More »‘Not just about pensions’: French protesters see threat to social justice in Macron’s reform

Pope Francis gave a speech where he spoke of the centuries of exploitation faced by the continent.

An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of over 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main… Read More »Young Iranian couple sentenced to prison for dancing in front of Tehran landmark

Pope Francis landed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday for a visit that will highlight the human cost of decades of conflict in the… Read More »‘Moment of joy’ as Pope Francis arrives in war-torn DR Congo

Pakistani authorities scrambled Tuesday to determine how a suicide bomber was able to carry out one of the country’s deadliest militant attacks in years, unleashing… Read More »Pakistan blames ‘security lapse’ for mosque bombing as death toll reaches 100

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank on Tuesday with renewed appeals for… Read More »Blinken expresses ‘sorrow’ over deaths of innocent Palestinians on Ramallah trip

Pope Francis on Tuesday is expected to land in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s largest predominantly Catholic country, for a landmark three-day visit.

Suspected jihadists killed 13 people, most of them from the military, in the lastest such attack in Burkina Faso’s restive north, the army said Tuesday.