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Twenty-nine people died and more than 60 are feared drowned after a pleasure boat sank on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police said Sunday. The vessel carrying close to a hundred revellers sank during bad weather on Saturday in the latest deadly incident

European Union leaders of the 27 states staying on together after Britain leaves the bloc on Sunday endorsed their Brexit deal with London, chairman Donald Tusk said. “EU27 has endorsed the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the future EU-UK relations,”

Morocco’s navy on Saturday found the bodies of 15 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa on board a boat stranded at sea for days and rescued 53 survivors, a military source said. Coastguards recovered “15 lifeless corpses” from the vessel in the Mediterranean

The 4th meeting of Turkey-Qatar High Strategic Committee is set to be held in Istanbul on Nov. 26, an official statement said. According to a statement from Turkey’s presidential press office, the meeting will be jointly presided over by President Recep

French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent demonstrators in Paris on Saturday, as thousands gathered in the capital and beyond and staged road blockades to vent anger against rising fuel taxes. Thousands of police were deployed nationwide

The announcement was made by his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who said on Saturday that the former leader has been receiving treatment in Singapore for the past two months. “He is now old. Of course, he now is unable to walk but whatever

Turkish and Russian defense ministers discussed the latest situation in Syria’s norhwestern Idlib and Tal Rifaat in a phone conversation Saturday. Turkish authorities, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Hulusi Akar and Sergei Shoigu discussed regional security issues as part

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his Somali counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Istanbul for talks on Friday, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency. The closed-door meeting between Erdogan and Mohamed at Vahdettin Pavilion in the Uskudar district lasted