Road and metro traffic in Madrid and neighbouring areas was disrupted on Tuesday after flooding the previous night transformed streets into torrents, authorities said. In Arganda del Rey near the Spanish capital, footage on local

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The bodies of five migrants including a Moroccan child were recovered off Libya's coast Tuesday while up to 20 others were missing after a Europe-bound boat sank, the navy said. Navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem told

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Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday refused to allow a ship carrying dozens of migrants to enter Italian waters, the latest in a string of standoffs over migrant rescues. The Eleonore, run by German

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A team of scientists in the US have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save "America's Great Barrier Reef" off the

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Britain's outgoing ambassador to Zambia on Tuesday denounced "rampant corruption" in the southern African nation and said donors were right to slash aid. In an usually outspoken diplomatic address, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet said reports of fraud

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A UN committee has ordered Nepal to compensate a man blocked from seeking justice after suffering years of forced labour, as well as alleged torture in custody as a child. In a decision published Tuesday,

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Dawda Jawara, the first president of The Gambia following independence from Britain, died Tuesday at the age of 95, officials said. Current President Adama Barrow, in online comments, described Jawara's death as "a great loss

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Iran has jailed a British dual national convicted of spying for Israel and upheld the sentence of a British Council staffer for "cultural infiltration", the judiciary said on Tuesday. Anousheh Ashouri, a woman with British

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ICE cotton futures edged up on Tuesday, rebounding from a 3-1/2-year lows touched in the previous session, as the natural fiber drew support from declining US crop ratings. Cotton contracts for December rose 0.15 cent,

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Copper prices steadied on Tuesday but remained near two-year lows on worries about damage to industrial activity and demand from the prolonged US-China trade war. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange was untraded at

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