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The G20 summit in Johannesburg closed on Sunday with South Africa claiming a diplomatic victory after securing agreement on a wide-ranging declaration – despite a boycott by the United States and warnings from several leaders that the forum is struggling to remain relevant in a fragmenting world.

Moroccan photographer Hicham Benohoud’s book The Classroom was been awarded PhotoBook of the year at Paris Photo, the world’s largest photography fair. The book presents a striking collection of black-and-white images created while he was working as an art teacher in Marrakesh in the early 1990s.

Plans to expand one of France’s primate research centres are facing resistance from animal rights groups and growing national debate over Europe’s animal testing future.

Organised crime has steadily gained ground across Africa since 2019, while efforts to combat it have weakened, according to the 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index. The new analysis found that corruption, disregard for law and lack of accountability are helping criminal networks to proliferate in several regions across the continent.

Thousands of protesters across France braved the cold on Saturday to express their anger over the persistence of violence against women and demand more public action and funds to combat the scourge.

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the foundations of a new international legal model to prosecute crimes against humanity.

Thousands of people gathered in Marseille on Saturday to honour the brother of an anti-drug activist murdered in France's second largest city whose death sparked nationwide calls to confront drug crime.

Nations clinched a deal at the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.

Climate activists dyed Venice's Grand Canal green Saturday, as countries at a UN climate conference in Brazil struggled to agree on the crucial issue of phasing out of fossil fuels.

Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 schoochildren and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said Saturday. No group has yet claimed responsibility for what is the second abduction in a week in Africa's most populous nation.

Turkey’s role as a mediator in the Ukraine war is coming under strain as Washington advances its own peace efforts and urges Ankara to loosen its ties with Moscow. The pressure comes as Volodymyr Zelensky met Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, where Turkey repeated its offer to restart…