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France votes in 'seismic' election
AFP News via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoFrance votes in legislative elections Sunday that will be decisive in determining its political future and could see the far right become the largest...
Barcelona residents protest against mass tourism
AFP News via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoThousands of protesters marched Saturday in Barcelona to denounce mass tourism and its effect on Spain's most visited city, the latest in a series of...
Sahel military chiefs mark divorce from West Africa bloc
AFP News via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThe military regimes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso marked their divorce from the rest of West...
Spain PM's wife testimony before judge in graft probe suspended
AFP News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife arrived at a Madrid court to testify before a judge...
London stocks, pound climb as Britons vote
AFP News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLondon's stock market and the pound advanced versus the dollar Thursday as Britons voted in a general election expected to be won by the centre-left and...
Chad rangers battle to protect park from poachers, local farmers
AFP News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBetween the orange trunks of the acacia trees in the Chad savannah, a herd of elephants move through...
Tourists seek out Nordic holidays to keep cool
AFP News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoFar from her home in the tourist mecca of Tenerife, Cati Padilla is one of the growing number of travellers escaping heatwaves for cooler holidays in...
Athens Acropolis introduces private visits for 5,000 euros
AFP News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe Acropolis in Athens, one of the world's most visited ancient monuments, has begun offering...
Nigeria weekend suicide bomb attack toll climbs to 32
AFP News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe death toll from multiple suicide bombings in the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza over the...
Making Olympic timekeepers' bells: a labour of love
AFP News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe air is stifling hot, with a heavy, metallic smell that sticks in the throat and stings the eyes.But a few weeks before the opening of the Paris...
