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Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb attack ‘kills 20’ At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb attack in northern Nigeria’s Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa’i has said. A suspected suicide bomber targeted civil servants at a government building in the city, witnesses said. Emergency workers have rushed to the scene to help evacuate the wounded. Militant ...

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has made a defiant speech as cash withdrawal limits begin to bite for Greek bank customers. Mr Tsipras promised Greeks their pensions and wages would be safe. Earlier he put new proposals in a letter to eurozone partners, accepting most of what was on the table before talks collapsed, but with conditions. Germany says talks ...

For six days last week, thousands of people protested in the streets in Jinshan, a Shanghai suburb. They believe the government plans to build a chemical plant making paraxylene, or PX, a material used in polyester clothing and plastic bottles. Jinshan’s protests attracted thousands more people every day. They appeared to be tolerated by the authorities until they moved to ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has “retired”  the army’s chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since rebel fighters  overran large parts of the country last year, his spokesman has said. General Babaker Zebari “has been retired” on Abbadi’s orders, Saad  al-Hadithi told the AFP news agency on Monday, without providing further details. Military sources say a Kurdish general ...

Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to soundly reject austerity proposals by the troubled country’s lenders, as thousands of his supporters rallied in the capital, Athens. “We ask you to reject it with all the might of your soul, with the greatest margin possible,” he said on Monday. “The greater the participation and the rejection of this deal, ...

At least 30 people have been killed in a military transport plane crash in a residential area of the Indonesian city of Medan, officials say. Local TV reported that the Hercules crashed into two houses and a car and burst into flames. Military spokesman Fuad Basya told the BBC that the plane came down soon after take-off and that there ...

In the ongoing debate over the significance of the Confederate flag in the United States, Indian American Nikki Haley has emerged as a civil rights champion. Haley has come a long way, from being unable to qualify to become either the white or the black pageant queen and facing ethnic slurs from her own party when standing for elections, to ...

Last year he visited Athens, this year Brussels. The European Union is China’s largest trading partner and Premier Li Keqiang comes twice a year. On this occasion, he started in Brussels with the annual China-EU summit with official visits to Belgium and France tacked on. The timing could be better. At the European Commission, his host President Jean Claude Juncker ...

A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a rifle he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 39 people including Britons, Germans and Belgians as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Terrified tourists ran for cover after the gunfire and an explosion erupted at the Imperial Marhaba ...

Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June. A Eurogroup statement said Greece had broken off negotiations over a new bailout deal “unilaterally”. Late on Friday, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called a surprise referendum for 5 July over the terms of any new deal. Greece has to pay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the ...