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Kenya launched construction of a Chinese-funded 13.8 billion dollar (10-billion euro) flagship railway project on Thursday, hoping to dramatically increase trade and boost Kenya’s position as a regional economic powerhouse. The key transport link, to…

Tuareg demonstrators on Thursday occupied an airport runway to prevent Mali’s Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly visiting the rebel-controlled northeastern town of Kidal, officials said. Protesters said Malian soldiers shot and wounded three of the demonstrators…

Fifty Tunisian policeman were injured in clashes with protesters in the marginalised town of Siliana where a general strike degenerated into violence, the interior ministry said on Thursday. The violence broke out on Wednesday as the town observed a…

A Russian court on Thursday ordered to release on bail the last of 30 Greenpeace crew members who had been held in detention since their September protest against Arctic oil drilling. “Excellent news! Colin Russell from Australia is granted bail,” the…

A sharp contraction in lending to businesses in the eurozone coupled with slowing money supply growth suggests the region’s fight against deflation may not be over, analysts said Thursday. Regular monthly data compiled by the European Central Bank showed…