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Hundreds of students and pro-democracy supporters demonstrated in Algiers Tuesday as a revived protest movement enters its third week of rallies.

Egyptian police arrested Tuesday a man alleged to be a paedophile caught on a surveillance camera assaulting a young girl in footage that went viral, the interior ministry said.

Libya’s prime minister-designate demanded the departure Tuesday of an estimated 20,000 foreign fighters as he sought support from lawmakers to help end a grinding civil war in the North African … Read More

The UN health agency and its partners have found in a new study that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes.

Discontent is brewing in the ranks of Lebanon’s security forces over a currency crash wiping out most of the value of their salaries as unrest and crime surge.

Germany’s World Cup-winning head coach Joachim Loew will step down after the European championships this July, the German football association said Tuesday.

The statues – one 55-metres high, the other 38 metres – were believed to have been carved painstakingly by hand over lifetimes into the caramel-coloured sandstone cliffs in Bamiyan, alongside … Read More

Sudan began inoculating frontline healthcare workers against coronavirus Tuesday after receiving its first batch of vaccines last week, a health official said.

A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced five people to life in jail over the 2016 assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported.

Hamas Islamists will this week elect the head of their Gaza political branch — the group’s de facto leader in the Palestinian enclave, Hamas sources told AFP on Tuesday.