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Pakistan postpones execution of paraplegic man

Pakistan has postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged. The man’s family...

Ukraine should join Nato, says President

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the country’s security council that staying out of the Nato alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government...

Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister released after military coup

Burkina Faso’s military says the interim prime minister has been released by the presidential guard that seized power in a coup last week. The release...

Gunmen seize foreign tourists at Philippine resort

Gunmen have abducted a Norwegian resort manager, two Canadians and a Filipino woman from a southern Philippine island. Two Japanese guests unsuccessfully tried to intervene...

Elderly German woman charged with Nazi war crimes

German prosecutors have charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS...

German minister proposes ‘fixed number’ for refugee intake

A German minister is proposing a system under which the European Union would take in a fixed number of refugees directly from crisis-hit areas,...

Bank of Spain warns Catalonia that independence would mean euro exit

Spain’s central bank says Catalonia would be automatically ejected from the European Union and the eurozone if it were to declare independence. Bank governor Luis...

New Zealand’s Hamilton Zoo not to put down tiger that killed zookeeper

A New Zealand zoo has decided that it will not euthanise a Sumatran tiger that attacked and killed a veteran zookeeper. The male tiger named...

Croatia sets up refugee centre to ease crisis

Authorities in Croatia have set up a refugee reception centre in the eastern Croatian village of Opatovac, hoping to inject order into the unrelenting...

British Govt approves £2bn guarantee for Hinkley Point nuclear reactor

A nuclear power station in Britain, which faced opposition here, has moved a step closer to construction. An initial government guarantee, worth £2bn, has been...

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