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World View: German paper outlines vision for EU defence union
- Opinion
- May 7, 2016, 01:00
A Berlin leak to the Financial Times this week has given a new twist to the Brexit debate that will not have been welcome in either Downing Street or (...)

Latvia to ban face veils – for the three women who wear them
- Europe
- April 20, 2016, 15:41
With her niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer’s eyes, Liga Legzdina stands out amid pine trees, grasslands and wood-panell(...)

Conn Hallinan: 1916 was an inspiration in the struggle against colonialism
- Opinion
- March 28, 2016, 01:00
‘Poblacht na hÉireann”: The speaker of these words, standing in front of Dublin’s General Post Office and reading from a proclamation, the ink was bar(...)

Gunmen attack base for EU military mission in Mali
- Africa
- March 21, 2016, 20:47
Gunmen have attacked a base for a European Union military training operation in Mali. There were no casualties among the mission’s personnel at the (...)

Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa makes a lethal comeback
- Africa
- March 16, 2016, 13:11
Only a few years after French troops broke up its desert stronghold and scattered its fighters into the dunes, al-Qaeda’s branch in West Africa has r(...)

At least 16 dead after shooting at Ivory Coast beach resort
- World
- March 13, 2016, 15:41
Fourteen civilians, including four Europeans, and two soldiers were killed in the Ivory Coast beach resort of Grand Bassam on Sunday when gunmen storm(...)

Lara Marlowe: France has a fatal attraction to the Middle East
- Opinion
- January 26, 2016, 19:20
The French writer and statesman André Malraux allegedly predicted that “the 21st century will be a century of religion or it will not be at all.” Th(...)

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 (...)

Militants take hostages in Burkina Faso hotel attack
- Africa
- January 15, 2016, 23:53
Armed men stormed a hotel in the west African city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, last night, taking hostages and burning vehicles in what appears to b(...)

Paris plans subdued new year celebrations after terror attacks
- Europe
- December 30, 2015, 20:27
Authorities in Paris, with an eye to security following the November attacks by armed militants, are shortening a new year video light spectacular at (...)