AFP Djibo Bakary, Niamey’s first mayor, was a key figure in the fight for independence which happened in 1960 when Charles de Gaulle was France’s president Niger’s military leaders have…

Reuters Ramez Abu Nasr managed to save his brother from the rubble Warning: This piece contains graphic descriptions of death and violence The hand was covered in dust, streaked with…

The UN’s special coordinator for Lebanon has criticised Israel after air strikes on municipal buildings in the southern city of Nabatieh killed the mayor and 15 other people. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert…

A Russian whale watcher has been found alive, along with two dead relatives, two months after he set off. State TV showed 46-year-old Mikhail Pichugin in a hospital in Magadan,…

ED JONES/AFP Russia denies North Korean soldiers are preparing for combat in Ukraine (file pic) Russia’s army is forming a unit of some 3,000 North Koreans, a Ukrainian military intelligence…

Officials from the UK and the US are urging India to co-operate with Canada’s legal process after it accused India of being involved in homicides, extortions and other violent acts…

Falling debris narrowly missed a group of people in a street in eastern Turkey, after it was hit by an earthquake. A 5.9-magnitude quake struck the city of Elazig in…

France football captain Kylian Mbappé is “astonished” to see his name linked in media reports to a rape inquiry in Sweden, but his lawyer says he is calm because he…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has presented MPs with a long-awaited “victory plan” that aims to strengthen his country’s position enough to end the war with Russia. Zelensky told parliament in…

A highly anticipated museum housing the world’s largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts has opened the doors to some of its galleries. More than 20 years in the making, the…