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A hitman offered C$100,000 ($71,400; £56,000) for the assassination of a crime reporter at Montreal newspaper La Presse, the outlet has reported. Convicted killer Frédérick Silva confessed to La Presse that he had offered the contract to anyone willing to carry out the hit on Daniel Renaud, who was covering…

One of Africa’s best known musicians – the Malian singer Rokia Traoré – has reportedly been imprisoned in Belgium as part of an ongoing child custody dispute. The 50-year-old is being held after being extradited from Italy, over an outstanding two-year prison sentence, according to the AFP news agency. The…

The Israeli military has warned Lebanese citizens not to return to 60 villages in the south of the country, three days into a ceasefire after more than a year of fighting with the Shia armed group Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a map showing a swathe of territory…

Eritrean residents in Ethiopia’s capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who fled their homes in search of a better life. While not unprecedented, the scale and intensity of the current crackdown in Addis Ababa is significant, with hundreds reportedly detained in…

Rebel forces have entered parts of Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, a monitoring group says, in the biggest offensive against the government in years. The UK-based group says fighters set off two car bombs before advancing into neighbourhoods, without giving further details. Government forces meanwhile say they have regained control of…

Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron has toured Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral live on TV, giving the public a first look inside the building since much of it was destroyed or damaged in a huge fire in 2019. From the spire to the stained glass, it has been completely transformed. It is…

A restored Notre-Dame cathedral will soon re-open in Paris – five-and-a-half years after a fire ravaged the Gothic building. On Friday, France’s President Emmanuel Macron visited the cathedral to mark its imminent re-opening, kicking off a programme of ceremonies that will end with an official “entry” into the cathedral on…

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps hundreds – of West African troops were killed almost exactly 80 years ago, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said. Those who died were part of the Tirailleurs Senegalais…

Getty Images Alexei Gorinov was punished for questioning whether his Moscow district should hold a children’s drawing competition while “children are dying in Ukraine” A Moscow councillor serving time in jail for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine has been given an additional three years in prison. Alexei Gorinov,…

Getty Images “It’s much better than other bananas,” Justin Sun said A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous 2019 work Comedian – a banana…