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The 23.8-percent turnout was a record low for a major vote in Algeria, with fewer than 15 percent of eligible voters endorsing the constitutional document Algerians approved constitutional reforms in a referendum, though with a record low turnout, the country's...

Dozens of polio cases have been detected in Chad just months after the UN declared the disease eradicated in Africa, but the government and World Health Organization said Friday that the infections were a vaccine-derived strain. Sixty-six cases have been detected so...

France announced Friday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed the military commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned group linked to attacks in the region. The killing of Ba Ag Moussa is a major boost for the thousands-strong French Barkhane force stationed in the...

Italian coastguard rescues migrant boats near Lampedusa Italy's coastguard rescued about 170 migrants on two separate rubber oats in Mediterranean waters, news agency AGI reported Friday, hours after a crisis hotline signalled they were in distress. Some 79 migrants...