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Christopher Cummins

Switzerland

Security concerns shiver through Davos as Trump takes centre stage

What of global security under Donald Trump?

Gambia

Senegalese troops cross border into Gambia as crisis intensifies

Senegalese troops cross the border into Gambia to ensure Adama Barrow assumes power

Germany

No admissions on emissions former VW boss claims ignorance over fraud

"Looking for answers" former VW boss unaware of emissions con

Austria

Austria announces new measures to tighten border with Slovakia

Austria wants tighter borders with Slovakia

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Iran

High-rise horror as Tehran building collapses killing dozens of firefighters

A shopping mall collapses in central Tehran killing dozens of firefighters

USA

Obama talks Trump, Russia, Israel and democracy in his final news conference as US president

Obama addresses White House news corps for the final time.

Iraq

Iraqi army and allies take control of eastern Mosul

Eastern Mosul back under Iraqi government control

Italy

Seismically vulnerable central Italy once again rocked by tremors

Italy once again shaken by earthquakes

Nigeria

Scores dead as Nigerian warplane mistakenly strikes refugee camp

Many dead a Nigerian attack plane hits refugee camp

Brazil

Brazil's brutal prison violence prompts government action

Brazil's prison violence prompts government action

Germany

German court rules neo-Nazi NPD is no threat to democracy

No ban for Neo-Nazi NPD

Turkey

Turkish prosecutors demand 142 year jail term for Kurdish leader

Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas faces 142 years in jail

Russia

Lavrov pours scorn on US intelligence claims of Russian cyber attacks

Lavrov denies Russian involvement in election hacking

USA

Last man on the moon Gene Cernan dies at 82

Gene Cernan last man on the moon dies at 82

United Kingdom

Snap election in Northern Ireland polls open March 2

Northern Ireland faces snap election scheduled for March 2

Spain

Police in San Sebastian arrest suspected Islamist boxing instructor

Moroccan national suspected of being the leader of an Islamist cell arrested in Spain.

Mexico

Five dead in Mexican nightclub bloodbath

Nightclub nightmare as gunman kills revellers

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan village devastated as dozens die in Turkish cargo plane crash

Dozens dead in Kyrgyzstan village in Turkish cargo plane crash

World News

Egyptian court blocks island handover to Saudi Arabia

Cairo court rules that the islands Tiran and Sanafir remain Egyptian

Cuba

Obama consigns 'wet foot, dry foot' law to history

US President Barack Obama has ended the immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who reached US soil to remain and be granted residency.

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