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Italy

Michele Ferrero, owner of Nutella empire, dies at 89

15/02/2015

World News

Data 'mocks' claims migrants try for Europe 'expecting' sea rescue

13/02/2015

France

French TV star Roger Hanin dies

11/02/2015

Algeria

Assia Djebar dies, aged 78

Assia Djebar, a novelist and staunch defender of women's rights, has died in Paris.

08/02/2015

France

France remembers the Charlie Hebdo killings one month after the attacks

France has been remembering her dead. On Saturday (February 9), one month after the attacks which killed 17 people, fresh flowers and messages

07/02/2015

Iraq

Scores dead in three seperate Baghdad bomb blasts

At least 34 people have been killed and scores injured in three seperate bomb attacks in Baghdad. The first blast claimed 22 lives and injured 50

07/02/2015

Iraq

Fatal bomb blasts cause carnage in Baghdad scores dead and injured

At least 23 people have been killed and scores injured following two seperate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The first bomb went off in

07/02/2015

Syria

ISIL claims US hostage killed in bombing raid Washington seeks proof

ISIL militants claim that US hostage, Kayla Mueller, has been killed during a Jordanian air strike. The group announced she died in Raqqa, an

07/02/2015

Jordan

Pro-air strikes, anti-ISIL: Thousands attend rally in Jordanian capital

Thousands took to the streets of Amman on Friday (February 6) to protest at the murder of Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. He was filmed being

07/02/2015

Mexico

Dozens of bodies found in Mexican abandoned funeral home

Police in Mexico have opened an investigation after dozens of rotting bodies were found in an abandoned crematorium near Acapulco. The grim discovery

06/02/2015

Mexico

Police discover 61 bodies in Mexican crematorium

06/02/2015

Russia

Russian woman, 81, dies after being arrested for stealing butter

Media reports say the pensioner was accused of taking three packets of butter without paying

05/02/2015

Sport

German football loses a giant with the death of Udo Lattek

The most successful club manager in German football history, Udo Lattek, has died aged 80. He was one of a select few managers to win all three major

04/02/2015

Chad

Chadian forces kill hundreds of Boko Haram militants in north east Nigeria

Chad’s army claims it has killed some 200 Boko Haram militants in the towns of Gambaru and Ngala near the border with Cameroon. Around 2,000 Chadian

04/02/2015

Jordan

Jordan's King Abdullah pledges 'relentless war' against ISIL militants

Demands for revenge against ISIL militants have replaced the criticism levelled at King Abdullah, in response to the brutal killing of a captured

04/02/2015

Jordan

King Abdullah says killing will unite Jordanians but faces protests at home

Jordanians have been shocked and saddened by the grisly death suffered by one of their pilots at the hands of the ISIL extremists. King Abdullah was

03/02/2015

Jordan

Jordan mourns pilot killed by ISIL militants

These were the scenes in Amman as the news on State TV broke that Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh had been killed by ISIL militants. The government

03/02/2015

Ukraine

In Eastern Ukraine killing of civilians worse

War in the east of Ukraine jumped to a deadlier level with the shelling of Mariupol on Saturday 24 January. Rockets hit a market, schools, homes and

03/02/2015

Netherlands

Top UN court rules Serbia and Croatia not guilty of genocide during Balkans conflict

International Court of Justice says neither Serbia nor Croatia committed genocide during Balkan wars

03/02/2015

Ukraine

Civilians suffer as Ukraine rebels step up battle for Debaltseve

Rebel rockets were seen streaking across the eastern Ukrainian sky on Monday, as the pro-Russian separatists continued to pound the strategic town of

02/02/2015