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Search party launched after 12 British nationals and 12 Egyptian crewmembers aboard scuba diving vessel rescued
Three British tourists are missing after a scuba diving boat they were cruising in caught fire off Egypt’s Red Sea coastline on Sunday, authorities have said.
Ursula von der Leyen says €900m will be macrofinancial assistance while €105m will help combat people-smuggling
The European Union is considering providing more than €1bn (£850m) in aid for Tunisia to rescue state finances and deal with a migration crisis, the EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday.
Chinese intelligence collection from Cuba predates the Biden era, with facilities upgraded in 2019, White House official says
China has been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence collection facilities there in 2019, a Biden administration official said on Saturday, following a report about a new spying effort underway on the island.
Orphanage run by Damas Gisimba and his brother became refuge from militias during genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans
Yu Wai Myint was a cheerful young woman who liked to sing as she worked at her sewing machine. Forced by family circumstances to drop out of school in the eighth grade, the 22-year-old seamstress never seemed to lament her lot in life.… Read the rest