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Warsaw, Aug 9 (AFP/APP):Poland will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its eastern border with neighbouring Belarus, a deputy interior minister said Wednesday, as a record number of migrants try to cross. “This will not be a reinforcement of 1,000 but of 2,000 soldiers,” […]

Paris, Aug 7 (AFP/APP): French police on Monday said they had arrested a 55-year-old German national after his wife was discovered naked and with broken bones following 12 years in captivity at the couple’s home. A police source said the woman, also German, was found […]

Lisbon, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass before a huge crowd on Sunday at a waterside park near Lisbon to wrap up an international jamboree of Catholic youth. Around 1.5 million people attended the service at the Parque Tejo park on the […]

Dakar, Aug 7 (AFP/APP): Mali and Burkina Faso are to send a joint official delegation in a show of solidarity with Niger, which is under the control of the coup leader who toppled the elected government. “Burkina Faso and Mali are sending a delegation to […]

Tehran, Aug 7 (AFP/APP): Five people including two policemen were killed and at least 11 others injured during the collapse of several buildings in Iran’s capital, local media reported on Monday. The policemen were securing the planned demolition on Sunday of “unauthorised buildings” in Tehran’s […]

PortauPrince, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): In Cite Soleil, the largest slum in Haiti’s gang-infested capital, the early days of August have brought a grim flow of sometimes skeletally malnourished children to the Fontaine Hospital Center. The community clinic, a reassuring presence in this poorest corner of […]

Limoges, France, Aug 6 (AFP/APP): A teenager riding a scooter and his adult passenger were killed in France after an encounter with police, during which officers said Sunday the pair had fled a patrol and crashed into another vehicle. The incident comes just weeks after […]