Journalist detained, home searched over reporting on French state defense secrets, news outlet says | AP News

Journalist detained, home searched over reporting on French state defense secrets, news outlet says | AP News

PARIS (AP) — A French journalist was arrested and her residence searched Tuesday by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, her employer the investigative news outlet Disclose, said.Disclose said reporter Ariane Lavrilleux’s detention was linked to her reporting on leaked documents implicating French intelligence’s alleged role in the Egyptian government’s targeting of civilians.The media outlet called

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Nigeria’s opposition candidate appeals election verdict, asks court to declare him winner instead | AP News

Nigeria’s opposition candidate appeals election verdict, asks court to declare him winner instead | AP News

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s main opposition candidate in this year’s presidential election appealed a ruling that upheld President Bola Tinubu’s victory and asked the nation’s Supreme Court to declare him the winner instead, according to documents seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday.In the documents filed, the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, who came

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US issues more sanctions over Iran drone program after nation’s president denies supplying Russia | AP News

US issues more sanctions over Iran drone program after nation’s president denies supplying Russia | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran’s drone program. The U.S. accuses Iran of supplying Russia with drones used to bomb Ukrainian civilians as the Kremlin continues its invasion of Ukraine.The latest

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UK inquiry: Migrants awaiting deportation are kept ‘in prison-like’ conditions at a detention center | AP News

UK inquiry: Migrants awaiting deportation are kept ‘in prison-like’ conditions at a detention center | AP News

LONDON (AP) — A British inquiry reported Tuesday that migrants awaiting deportation suffered physical and verbal abuse at a government-run detention center, and recommended that no one be kept in such “prison-like” conditions for more than 28 days.Inquiry chairwoman Kate Eves said migrants suffered “shocking treatment” at the Brook House Immigration Removal Center near Gatwick

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Why new fighting in Azerbaijan’s troubled region may herald a new war | AP News

Why new fighting in Azerbaijan’s troubled region may herald a new war | AP News

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Azerbaijan’s launch of reportedly intense artillery firing in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday raised fears that another full-scale conflict with Armenia could be underway, less than three years after a war that killed more than 6,000 people.Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of about 120,000, is an ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan that

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Almost 50 children from occupied Ukrainian regions arrive in Belarus, sparking outrage | AP News

Almost 50 children from occupied Ukrainian regions arrive in Belarus, sparking outrage | AP News

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian state media reported that 48 children from Ukraine arrived in Belarus on Tuesday from Ukrainian regions which Moscow claims it has annexed.The group of children came from the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions. They include children from towns which were captured by the Russian army in July 2022. Those

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Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa | AP News

Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa | AP News

BERLIN (AP) — German government officials held talks Tuesday with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes, an official said.Poland has been shaken for weeks by reports that its consular sections

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