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The demonstration was planned for 4pm on 15 April, a warm Sunday afternoon in the somnolent Nigerien capital. The protesters had two main complaints: rising taxes and the fact that, in recent years, some of the...

Former Australian archbishop Philip Wilson was met by outraged victims as he left the courthouse with no jail time. Wilson’s conviction was a landmark ruling in Australia that could affect other cases around the country. An...

Swedish police have described the arson attacks on cars as “organized and prepared.” They come amid growing concern over violence, which could benefit Sweden’s anti-immigration Social Democrats in the upcoming election. Groups of youths in Sweden...

It is in Germany’s interest for Turkey to be “economically prosperous,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel. But she warned this couldn’t be at the expense of state interventions, as the Turkish lira continues to drop. German Chancellor...

Residents of Fukushima have demanded the removal of a statue of a child in a protective suit from outside the city’s railway station, saying it gives the impression that the area is unfit for human habitation...

Turkey’s central bank has acted to stem the lira’s crash, but the intervention was not enough to quell investors’ fears that the country’s financial crisis could spread to European markets. The lira pulled back from from...

Sports Direct, the sportswear chain controlled by Mike Ashley, has swooped on House of Fraser in a £90m rescue deal that secures 17,000 jobs for the time being. In a statement to the stock exchange, Sports Direct confirmed...

Almost 400 Ryanair flights scheduled for Friday have been grounded because of pilot strikes. Employees in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands are staging a 24-hour walkout over pay and conditions. The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger...

The list began spreading from phone to phone on Saturday, just as police were starting to fire teargas and rubber bullets at protesters in Dhaka demonstrating for safer roads. “Please pass these addresses to trusted people...

A federal judge ordered the government to return an asylum-seeking mother and her daughter to the US after the Trump administration revealed in a Thursday court hearing that they had sent the migrants to Central America while the...