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Chad said on Thursday that it was ending its defense cooperation pact with former colonial power France in a decision…

A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship to plough into a reef off the coast…

French authorities arrested 26 people and seized €11 million as they smashed a migrant trafficking ring suspected of bringing several…

Moldova is at a crucial crossroads as polling stations opened today for a pivotal referendum. Voters across the nation are tasked with two significant decisions: determining their next president and deciding whether Moldova should embrace European Union (EU) membership.

Sweden urged the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 to return to Swedish waters on Tuesday to facilitate the investigation that opened following the recent damage of two underwater communication cables linking four NATO nations, several media report.

A lawyer for the chief defendant in a French mass rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, urged the court to recall his good side after prosecutors demanded lengthy jail terms for the dozens of suspects. The main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, has admitted enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife while she was drugged and unconscious.

Provisions for immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) apply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, November 27. In a statement the ministry reaffirmed its commitment to international justice after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but also said that the Israeli leader was covered by immunity rules that apply to states which are not a party to the ICC. Israeli is not an ICC member.

US President-elect Donald Trump named retired general Keith Kellogg as Ukraine envoy, tasked with ending Russia’s invasion. Trump, pledging a swift resolution to the war, aims to mediate a ceasefire between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Voters in Namibia cast ballots to elect a new president and parliament in polls that could result in the country’s first female head of state being elected. Around 1.4 million people — roughly half of country’s population — are eligible to vote.

Ninety further victims have been identified by detectives investigating Mohamed Al Fayed and the sex abuse scandal. The new claims…