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Final Stage the Toughest For Paris
Paris is the hot favorite to win the right to host the 2024 Olympics Games but, having fallen at the final hurdle...
Greece Approves Christmas Bonus As France Challenges German Veto
Greece defied its creditors and approved plans on Thursday to give its battered pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus...
Foreign Banks In Britain Pay Fraction of Tax Rate
Some of the biggest foreign investment and commercial banks operating in Britain paid an average tax rate of just 6...
Central African Republic Violence Worsening Despite Vote
Violent clashes are spreading in Central African Republic despite successful polls that elected a new government...
Congo Wants Social Media Blocked Before Expected Anti-Kabila Demos
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have asked telecoms companies to block social media networks from...
Murdoch’s Fox Agrees Deal To Buy Sky For $14.6 Billion
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA. O) said on Thursday it had agreed to buy European pay-TV firm Sky...
One Killed As Aleppo Medical Convoy Comes Under Fire
Ambulances trying to evacuate people from rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Thursday came under fire from fighters loyal to...
Suicide Car Bomb Explodes At Checkpoint In Mogadishu
A suicide car bomb exploded on Thursday at a checkpoint near Somalia's national theater in the capital Mogadishu,...
The Gambia President Jammeh Must Step Aside
The UN's West Africa envoy says Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down when his mandate ends in January and would...
US Osprey Aircraft Crashes Off Okinawa Coast In Japan
The US Marines have suspended flights of all Osprey military aircraft in Japan, after a crash off the coast of Okinawa...
Wonder Woman Dropped As UN Equality Champion
The UN has ended its campaign with comic book heroine Wonder Woman, a spokesman says, less than two months after her...
More Than 5,900 Deaths In ‘war On Drugs’
There have been 5,927 deaths linked to the "war on drugs" in the Philippines since July 1 according to statistics...
Ghana’s Next Leader Under Pressure To Deliver
Ghana's President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo needs to act fast to deliver on his campaign promise to create jobs, restore...
Trump Engages CIA In War of Words Over Russian Election Hacking
In an unprecedented public display of acrimony, President-elect Donald Trump and the CIA are engaged in a war of words...
Gambia Election Chief Stand By Yahya Jammeh Defeat
The Gambia’s elections commission head has dismissed President Yahya Jammeh’s call to annul the election he was...
Major Sky Shareholder To Vote Against Fox Bid
A major shareholder in British pay-TV company Sky (SKYB. L) will vote against Twenty-First Century Fox's (FOXA.O) $14...
IS Retakes Ancient Syrian City
The Islamic State (IS) group has retaken the Syrian city of Palmyra, hours after Russian air strikes appeared to have...
Turkey’s AK Party Wants President’s Powers Expanded
Turkey’s ruling AK Party on Saturday submitted to parliament a package of constitutional reform proposals that would...
Gambia Refuses Entry To ECOWAS Head Amid Election Dispute
Gambian authorities have refused entry to the chair of regional body ECOWAS, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Senegal’s foreign...