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Slovakia: Anti-corruption candidate leads poll

Lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner Zuzana Caputova has easily won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election. She has just over 40% with M

Zimbabwe: School hit by landslide

Two boarding school pupils are among 31 people to have been killed in eastern Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai. They were asleep in their dormitory when rocks

Australian charged with murder after New Zealand mosque shootings

Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 persons were killed and dozens wo

Algeria tests path toward democracy in an era of authoritarianism

When Algerians filled their country’s streets to demand political change, it looked at first like a familiar story of hopes for democracy bound to tur

Sports cancelled as traumatised New Zealand mourns shooting victims

A raft of top-class sports events were cancelled in New Zealand on Saturday as a traumatised nation started burying the dead from the worst peacetime