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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairo's ability to counter terrorism in the region, a comment likely to draw the ire of critics.

Six supporters of Indonesian Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab were killed in a shootout on Monday, police said, raising worries the clash could reignite tensions between authorities and Islamist groups in the world's biggest Muslim majority country.

A sizeable minority of people believe conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and COVID19 vaccines, some experts have warned, just as countries prepare to launch mass inoculations to get the pandemic under control.

Scattered violence marred Cameroon's first ever election to appoint regional councils on Sunday, with one voter killed by separatist insurgents in the Englishspeaking Northwest region.

The chief adviser for U.S. efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine said on Sunday he planned to meet with Presidentelect Joe Biden this week to discuss the program before the expected first round of vaccinations in the country later this month.

The summit is due to take place in the Scottish city of Glasgow in November next year.

Cameroon holds its first ever regional election on Sunday, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but opponents fear only maintains President Paul Biya's long hold on power.

U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia on Saturday for two Republican senators at a rally that some in his party feared could end up hurting, not helping, their chances by focusing on his efforts to reverse his own election defeat.

Indonesia's antigraft agency named Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara on Sunday as a suspect in a milliondollar bribery case, along with four others, while President Joko Widodo warned officials against misuse of public funds.

Former world champion Marina Arzamasova of Belarus received a fouryear ban for doping after her defense that she had taken contaminated overthecounter supplements was rejected.

A manager and a former employee of Leonardo were arrested on Saturday for their alleged role in hacking the Italian defence group's computers to steal sensitive information between 2015 and 2017, prosecutors in the southern city of Naples said.

The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump's orders, continuing a postelection push by Trump to shrink U.S. involvement in counterterrorism missions abroad.

Philippine police on Friday threatened to cane people who violate social distancing protocols as the Southeast Asian nation fights the spread of the coronavirus during the festive season.

Bangladesh says it is only transferring people who are willing to go and the move will ease chronic overcrowding in camps that are home to more than 1 million Rohingya. But refugees and humanitarian workers say some of the Rohingya had been coerced into g...

Bulgaria on Friday announced plans to vaccinate people against the coronavirus free of charge once it has procured vaccine doses, and said it would start with doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists.

The leader of Ethiopia's rebellious Tigrayan forces said on Friday that protests were breaking out in the regional capital which fell to federal troops days ago in their monthlong war.