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The homes of about 30,000 people have been demolished in a Kenyan slum to make way for a new $20m (£15m) dual carriage way in the capital Nairobi. The residents, living in part of the city’s largest slum, Kibera, were given

At least 50 people are feared dead in wildfires burning in the Attica region around Athens, in Greece’s worst fire crisis in more than a decade. According to the Red Cross, 26 bodies were found in the yard of a villa

The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia has defended the practice. Dahir Nur’s daughter died of blood loss on 17 July, two days after being taken to a traditional circumciser. But he

Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said on Monday. Photographs released by Antara News Agency showed bloodied carcasses

Two French football supporters have died as violence erupted across the country following Les Bleus ’ World Cup triumph. Some of the worst scenes were in central Paris, where the Champs Élysées remained closed in the early hours of Monday following

Tunisia’s World Cup coach Nabil Maaloul has left his job in order to take charge of Qatari league champions Al Duhail. Maaloul, who turns 56 later this month, takes over from Djamel Belmadi, who quit and is widely expected to be

France won the Fifa World Cup for the second time by overcoming Croatia’s bold challenge in a thrilling final in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. Didier Deschamps’ side repeated the success on home soil at France ’98 by a margin that hardly looked

Nigeria’s armed forces have released 183 children who were being held on suspicion of having ties to militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The 175 boys and eight girls – whose ages ranged from eight to 18 years – were freed in