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The youngest son of former Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi has been released from jail in Lebanon after nearly a decade in pre-trial detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric.

French magistrates are investigating the ex-girlfriend of Salah Abdeslam, a man convicted for the deadly 13 November 2015 Paris attacks, prosecutors said. But the national anti-terror prosecutor's office said Abdeslam himself was not involved in any new plot.

The wife and son of former Gabonese president Ali Bongo, along with eleven of their close associates who held key positions at the end of his presidency, go on trial in Gabon on Monday, charged with treason and corruption.

The president of the African Union Commission has expressed “deep concern” over the security situation in Mali and an ongoing jihadist blockade that has impacted civilians, and called for “urgent international action”. Given the situation, France has recommended its citizens leave the country as soon as possible.

Anti-Turk protests in Montenegro have added to rising tensions between Serbia and Turkey. The unrest was set off by anger over Ankara’s sale of weapons to Kosovo, and growing fears of Turkish influence in the Balkans.

France marks ten years since its worst ever attack on 13 November 2015 when jihadists killed 130 people at the Bataclan concert hall and around Paris.

The United States' Democratic Party make decisive gains in local elections last week, hinting at new political fault lines in an unsettled electorate. Political scientist Charles Bullock of the University of Georgia, a veteran observer of US elections, analyses the implications for the 2026 midterms.

From next week, visitors to France's Chartres Cathedral will be able to plunge into the stories unfolding across dozens of medieval stained glass windows courtesy of a unique AI-driven app.

France’s overseas minister Naïma Moutchou faces a tough debut in New Caledonia, where economic hardship and political tensions are testing Paris’s resolve to rebuild trust in the South Pacific territory.