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Germany

Rock am Ring goes ahead

Crowds are gathering once again for the Rock Am Ring music festival in Germany.

USA

US backs out of Paris climate accord

The agreement was originally signed by 195 of 197 nations in a UN climate change group and pledged to limit rises in global temperatures but curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

South Africa

Knitting beats gang culture in South Africa

Sport

Messi tax fraud sentence upheld

Spain's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by footballer Lionel Messi against a 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud.

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Turkey

Erdogan back as head of AK Party

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the first president to lead a party since 1950. He took over the reins from Binali Yildirim, who will remain as Turkey's prime minister until elections set for 2019.

Saudi Arabia

Trump tells Middle East: "Step up the fight against Islamic extremism"

The US President has called on Arab leaders to do their share to fight "Islamist extremism" in a speech that put the responsibility on the region to combat militant groups while urging unity among rel

Switzerland

Swiss referendum on renewable energy

Swiss voters are set to back the government's plan to provide billions of euros in subsidies for renewable energy, ban the construction of new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities acc

Afghanistan

Aid workers killed and kidnapped in Afghanistan

A German aid worker and Afghan guard have been killed in an attack on a guesthouse in Kabul. A Finnish national has been kidnapped.

France

Macron - the hard work starts now

France's 39-year-old president was unknown to the wider public three years ago and remains outside any of the traditional political groupings.

France

Hollande: "I leave France in a better state than I found it"

Having handed the keys of the Elysee to his successor Emmanuel Macron, former president Francois Hollande headed straight for the headquarters of the French Socialist Party.

France

Emmanuel Macron is sworn in as French president

Central Paris came to a standstill on Sunday for the inauguration of Emmanuel Macron as president of France.

World News

Will WannaCry strike again?

Businesses around the world are preparing for a further cyber attack amid fears that a lull in the computer bug that halted production at car factories, operations at hospitals and work at schools and

Venezuela

Venezuela once more in the grip of protests

More clashes have broken out in Caracas as daily protests against the president descended into chaos.

Egypt

17 mummies found in Egypt

Archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in a complex of catacombs in Minya province, the first discovery of its kind since 1950

Ukraine

Portugal wins Eurovision 2017

Portugal has won the 2017 Eurovision song contest with a score of 758. It's the country's first ever win. 42 countries competed in this year's contest, with 26 taking part in the final watched at home

North Korea

North Korea will talk to US "if conditions are right"

South Korea's Yonhap news agency says the director general for US affairs in Pyongyang's foreign ministry, Choe Son Hui, made the comment to reporters in Beijing.

World News

The world is held to ransom

Europol is investigating an "unprecedented" global cyber attack that targeted the UK health system and has led French carmarker Renault to halt production at some sites.

Italy

Costa Concordia verdict due

Italy's highest court is due to give a verdict in the case of the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives.

USA

Hundreds arrested in "biggest ever" US gang crackdown

1,378 people have been arrested in the United States over the last six weeks as part of an operation to identify and prosecute gang members.

Iraq

Mosul offensive "in final phase"

Seven months into the campaign to recapture Iraq's second-largest city, government forces say it is now in its final phase after opening a new front in the northwest of the city last week.

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