Europe

HARARE - Sweden is ending development assistance to five countries — Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia and Bolivia — as it redirects its resources to funding Ukraine.
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PRETORIA - South African authorities have initiated a comprehensive investigation into explosive allegations that the daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, Duduzile Zuma, was involved in the recruitment of young South African and…
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PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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SOCHI - Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that if the United States supplies Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine this would lead to a “whole new level of escalation” and ruin US-Russian relations.
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PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit against right-wing US influencer Candace Owens over her persistent claims that the French First Lady was born a male.
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The head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia's security service FSB had been tracked down and "liquidated" after they resisted arrest on Sunday morning.
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HARARE - France's escalating need for foreign labor to address its workforce crisis has presented new employment opportunities for individuals, including those from Zimbabwe, in key sectors such as healthcare, construction, and agriculture.
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Ukraine says it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with Russia on Sunday, after using smuggled drones to launch a series of major strikes on 40 Russian warplanes at four military bases.
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VATICAN CITY - The new pope is Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV - the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the Catholic Church.
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Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of harming peace negotiations over the war in Ukraine with "inflammatory statements".
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