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Turkey raps France, says US only counterpart in northeast Syria

ISTANBUL, Jan 10 (AFP): Turkey's top diplomat on Friday said Washington was its only interlocutor in northeastern Syria and urged France to repatriate its jihadist nationals jailed in the country.The remarks by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan came as Washington tried to dissuade its NATO ally from escalating an offensive against...

Lancet study estimates Gaza death toll 40pc higher than recorded

PARIS, Jan 10 (AFP): Research published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory's health ministry.The number of dead in Gaza has become a...

Former US President Jimmy Carter remembered

Jimmy Carter, the late US president who served only one term in office and was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.Hundreds of mourners, including President Joe...

S Africa police rescue 26 Ethiopians held captive naked

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 10 (AFP): South African police said Friday that they had rescued 26 undocumented Ethiopian nationals who were being held captive without clothes in a suburban house in Johannesburg by suspected human traffickers.Up to 30 other men may have already escaped through a smashed window before police swooped in...

Nobel laureate Malala to visit native Pakistan for girls' summit

ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (AFP): Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.Yousafzai was evacuated from the country in 2012 after being shot by the Pakistan Taliban, who were enraged...

US President-elect Trump to be sentenced for hush money conviction

NEW YORK, Jan 10 (AFP): Donald Trump will be sentenced Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US President-elect's last-ditch efforts to frustrate a process that would make him the first felon in the White House.The judge has indicated, however, that Trump will not...