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Hardest Geezer Russ Cook ran length of Africa.

Dodging machetes and crossing sandstorms, ‘Hardest Geezer’ runs length of Africa

Russ Cook crossed 16 countries over the equivalent of 385 marathons – more than 16,300 kilometres – surviving machete-wielding villagers, desert sandstorms and crippling bouts of food poisoning.

  • Max Stephens

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An Italian Coast Guard boat carries migrants as tourists on a boat, foreground, watch, near the port of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, in southern Italy.

Migrants doubled the Lampedusa population in one day. Now Italy is striking back

“We will decide who comes to the European Union, and under what circumstances,” the European Commission’s president has declared.

  • Nicole Winfield, Lorne Cook and Angela Charlton
Judge Mohamed Tahar Kanzari, 49, who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, rests on the floor of the Judges’ Club in Tunis.

‘There is no other way’: Judges on hunger strike in fight for Tunisian democracy

Experts are not aware of judges in any other country having ever participated in such a hunger strike.

  • Siobhán O'Grady and Mohamed Bliwa
Tunisian President Kais Saied waves to bystanders as he stroll along the avenue Bourguiba in Tunis, Tunisia.

Tunisia’s youth being paid to illegally migrate to Europe to harm ties: president

“There are people who hurt Tunisia. I ask myself how they could make 1500 youths leave,” President Kais Saied was heard saying in a video released by his office.

  • Bouazza ben Bouazza
Under President Kais Saied orders troops surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and blocked its speaker Rached Ghannouchi from entering.

Tunisian president denies he staged a coup: ‘review your constitutional lessons’

Saied called on Tunisians to remain calm and not to respond to any provocations. He also urged people not to take to the streets.

  • Alaa Swilam
Tunisian President Kais Saied, right, appoints Interior Minister Hichem Mechichi as the new Prime Minister in July.

'No party': Tunisia is preparing to have a non-political government

The country has struggled to revive its collapsed economy since a 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring.

  • Tarek Amara
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A man at the Zewditu Memorial Hospital in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has his temperature checked.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma sends 5.4 million face masks to Africa

A cargo flight containing more than 6 million medical items arrived on Sunday in Ethiopia's capital.

Satellite images show before (top) and after an airstrike hit a migrant detention facility in Tripoli, Libya.

Dozens of migrants missing at sea day after deadly Libya airstrike

A boat carrying 86 migrants from Libya sank in the Mediterranean Sea and only three passengers are known to have survived.

  • Maggie Michael
People are prevented to enter a security area after an explosion in Tunis.

Islamic State claims two suicide bomb attacks in Tunisian capital

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, the militant group's Amaq propaganda outlet said on Thursday evening.

  • Tarek Amara
Busts purportedly taken from the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria on sale on Facebook.

'Loot to order': Facebook a vibrant market for war-zone antiquities

Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict areas are being offered for sale online, including items possibly stolen by Islamic State.

  • Karen Zraick

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