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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday ordered 10,000 troops and police to be sent to the region around Valencia where floods have left at least 211 dead and dozens missing.

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.

Spanish football clubs on Friday joined the relief operation to help rebuild eastern parts of the country around Valencia, where at least 158 people died in flash floods.

A new law making it simpler for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change gender markers and names on official documents will came into force in Germany on Friday.

A 15-year-old boy was fighting for his life on Friday after a shooting and mass brawl in Poitiers, western France.

African contemporary arts are attracting increasing interest thanks to a packed season stretching from Europe to Africa. Artists and curators from across the continent and the diaspora reflect on the impact of cultural exchanges beyond their borders – from London to Paris, Luanda to Dakar.

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Friday conceded defeat after preliminary results showed his ruling Botswana Democratic party lost its parliamentary majority in this week's election.

French number one Ugo Humbert will play the unseeded Australian Jordan Thompson on Friday for a place in the semi-finals at the Paris Masters after outmuscling the world number two Carlos Alcaraz in three sets in the last-16.

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody conflict that would last eight years. Claimed by the newly formed National Liberation Front (FLN), the attacks signalled the beginning of Algeria’s push for independence from…