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Despite their differences -- Macron is a 40-year-old centrist and Trump a 72-year-old rightwinger -- the French and US leaders initially enjoyed warm ties. But relations have soured
World
01.08.2024
France tells Trump to stop interfering in its politics
Belgium's Africa Museum, pictured in 2013 before its five-year restoration that curators hope will bury its reputation as a colonialist holdover
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01.08.2024
Belgium's brutality in Africa haunts refurbished museum
The Aquarius has helped almost 30,000 migrants at sea
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01.08.2024
UN urges more Med rescue capacity after Aquarius pullout
France's so-called 'yellow vest' protesters accuse President Emmanuel Macron of being a 'president of the rich'
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01.08.2024
Macron to meet unions, address nation seeking to end 'yellow vest' crisis
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Zambian President Edgar Lungu has said he will seek a fresh five-year term in 2021, prompting opposition parties to block him
World 01.08.2024
Zambia court rules president can run again in 2021 vote
Food magnate and former presidential candidate Sebastien Ajavon (pictured March 2016), known as Benin's "chicken king" because he made his money in livestock, was convicted at a special tribunal in Porto-Novo in October 2018
World 01.08.2024
Benin told not to impose sentence on 'chicken king'
Bart De Wever of the Belgium Flemish nationalist party N-VA issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Charles Michel over the UN migration pact
World 01.08.2024
Flemish nationalists quit Belgian government: minister
Merkel will be the principal speaker at Harvard's 368th commencement on May 30, 2019
World 01.08.2024
Germany's Merkel to deliver Harvard commencement address
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, seen here waiting to address the UN General Assembly in September, has told visiting officials US sanctions constitute "economic terrorism"
World 01.08.2024
Iran's Rouhani: US sanctions are 'economic terrorism'
Facebook groups have been crucial in mobilising protesters, many of whom hail from small-town and rural France
World 01.08.2024
How Facebook fuelled France's 'yellow vest' protests
Leading Russian rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva has died aged 91 after a life of tirelessly fighting for human rights
World 01.08.2024
Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva dies aged 91
Khashoggi, a Saudi contributor to the Washington Post, was killed shortly after entering the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul on October 2
World 01.08.2024
'I can't breathe' were Khashoggi's final words, report says
Several countries warned their nationals to stay away from any 'yellow vest' demonstrations in Paris for fear of violence
World 01.08.2024
Foreigners put on alert over French fuel protests
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