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Spanish football clubs on Friday joined the relief operation to help rebuild eastern parts of the country around Valencia, where at least 158 people died in flash floods.

A new law making it simpler for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change gender markers and names on official documents will came into force in Germany on Friday.

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody conflict that would last eight years. Claimed by the newly formed National Liberation Front (FLN), the attacks signalled the beginning of Algeria’s push for independence from…

The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.

France will temporarily reinstate border controls with its immediate neighbours for six months from November, in its most widespread resumption of checks since the Schengen zone was created three decades ago. The government says the move is due to security threats and illegal migration.

French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to Morocco is being closely watched in Algeria, where his support for Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara has been widely criticised.

French PhD student Victor Dupont has been detained in Tunisia on breach of state security charges for at least 12 days, it was announced this week. His university has denounced the arrest as an attack on fundamental liberties.

Players have been banned from drinking alcohol at French national rugby gatherings under new discipline measures announced by the French Rugby Federation (FFR) following a string of off-field controversies.

Spain mourned at least 158 deaths on Thursday and authorities told people in flood-stricken regions to stay at home as rescuers raced to find survivors in the rare disaster.