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EgyptAir: Passengers include Egyptians, French and a Briton
- Europe
- May 19, 2016, 08:11
Egypt’s Aviation ministry said 30 Egyptians, 15 French, one Briton and a Belgian were among the 66 people on board an EgyptAir flight that went missin(...)

Fort McMurray: the Canadian boom town turned to ashes
- World
- May 9, 2016, 15:37
Fort McMurray, or Fort Make Money as some Canadians nicknamed it during its recent boom years, was the kind of place where second chances and fat payc(...)

How Boko Haram gets abducted women to be suicide bombers
- Africa
- April 8, 2016, 12:36
Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy’s head from behind, to minimise struggling. (...)

Weakened Boko Haram sends girl bombers against Cameroon civilians
- Africa
- March 31, 2016, 15:59
Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist insurgents who have repe(...)

Pope eschews ‘eurocentric’ view in Easter address
- Religion & Beliefs
- March 27, 2016, 21:00
At the end of a week marked by terrorist attacks, Pope Francis urged people not to lose “all hope and joy in life”. Making his traditional Urbi et O(...)

Boko Haram hostages including young girls freed by Nigerian forces
- Africa
- February 27, 2016, 21:32
Cameroonian and Nigerian forces have freed several hundred hostages in a border town held by Boko Haram, including young girls who were being trained (...)

At least 65 killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
- Africa
- January 31, 2016, 16:28
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporte(...)

At least 23 dead as Burkina Faso hotel siege ends
- Africa
- January 16, 2016
Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday a day after al-Qaeda fighters seized it in an assault that killed two dozen (...)

Lack of women in paid work holding back global development
- World
- December 16, 2015, 01:00
Global development is being held back by the relative shortage of women in paid work, with participation rates having risen only slightly in the past (...)

The Devil Is a Black Dog review: dispatches from the dogs of war
- Books
- December 12, 2015, 01:00
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. So says Albert Camus, whose most famous book, The Outsider, has a Frenchman living in North Africa(...)