Jihadist insurgents still control large areas of the Sahel desert region after violence erupted in northern Mali in 2012.
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Rescuers in east China have pulled 11 miners from hundreds of metres underground where they were trapped for two weeks, as the race to locate the remaining 10 intensifies.
Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday.
Exactly a year ago, Wuhan shocked the world by confining its 11 million inhabitants to their homes, beginning a 76-day lockdown.
Rescuers have been in contact with some trapped workers and have delivered supplies since the January 10 explosion at a new gold mine under construction in the eastern Shandong province.
The 14-carat Spirit of the Rose diamond is named after the ballet made famous by Vaslav Nijinsky.
A British firm has won a €280,000 European Space Agency contract for technology to extract oxygen from moon dust and rocks.
Nikol Pashinian says other towns in the region could have been seized by Azerbaijan if he had not accepted the Russian-brokered agreement
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The stowaways had posed "a clear threat to life on the ship", the Defence Secretary says.