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US President Donald Trump has criticised European leaders as "weak" and suggested the US could scale back support for Ukraine.In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, he said "decaying" European countries had failed to control migration or take decisive action...

French celebrities and feminists have voiced their outrage at first lady Brigitte Macron's language about activists who had protested at a comedian's show.Activists wearing masks of Ary Abittan interrupted his stand-up show on Saturday shouting "Abittan rapist". Abittan was...

Twelve fired FBI agents are alleging that they were unlawfully sacked because they knelt during a racial justice protest in Washington DC five years ago.In a recently filed lawsuit, the former agents argue that their decision to kneel -...

Paul MellyWest Africa analystAFP via Getty ImagesFurther north, the wave of coups in the Sahelian countries in recent years were also driven by local conditions.In Mali and Burkina Faso, military commanders had grown frustrated with the weak leadership elected...

EPAUS lawmakers are trying to pressure the Trump administration to release video of a controversial "double-tap" military strike by limiting Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget. The incident on 2 September, in which the US carried out a second...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters - capable of sinking their claws even into solid stone.Then scientists came here in...

Eleven Nigerian military officers were briefly detained in Burkina Faso after their aircraft made an emergency landing in the country, Burkinabè security sources told the BBC.The Air Force C-130 aircraft entered Burkina Faso's airspace on Monday without authorisation, according...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed during a civil war more than two decades ago.Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman had been convicted in October on 27 counts...

Security has been tightened across Tanzania with police and military seen patrolling major cities ahead of anticipated anti-government protests called to coincide with independence day.By midday local time (09:00 GMT), however, no demonstrations had begun.Residents in Dar es Salaam,...

Two armed men have stolen at least 13 paintings from a library in São Paulo, Brazil, including eight engravings by famed French artist Henri Matisse.Authorities said on Monday that they had found the "escape vehicle" and one of the...