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![Sicily's Catania airport reopens after Mount Etna eruption](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/bd/42/b2/Sicily-s-Catania-airport-reopens-af-520176_small.jpg)
Sicily's Catania airport reopens after Mount Etna...
Sicily's Catania airport reopened Friday after a temporary suspension of flights earlier in the day caused by an eruption from Mou...
![Vatican excommunicates major pope critic for 'schism'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e0/3e/1e/Vatican-excommunicates-major-pope-c-470095_small.jpg)
Vatican excommunicates major pope critic for 'schi...
The Vatican has excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, one of Pope Francis's most virulent critics, after judging him guilt...
![Deadline nears for Boeing decision on proposed MAX agreement](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/17/dd/0e/Deadline-nears-for-Boeing-decision--102155_small.jpg)
Deadline nears for Boeing decision on proposed MAX...
More than five years after two fatal 737 MAX crashes, Boeing faces a fresh legal reckoning now that prosecutors have concluded the...
![France bans rallies in New Caledonia during Sunday polls](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f0/df/34/France-bans-rallies-in-New-Caledoni-020100_small.jpg)
France bans rallies in New Caledonia during Sunday...
Gatherings have been banned this weekend in the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia during the second round of Franc...
![Released Gaza detainees allege torture by Israel amid war](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/42/ff/ae/Released-Gaza-detainees-allege-tort-200800_small.jpg)
Released Gaza detainees allege torture by Israel a...
Blindfolded, beaten and sometimes bitten by dogs, Gazans released from Israeli prisons allege being tortured amid the Israel-Hamas...
![Spain PM's wife testifies before judge in graft probe](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/bd/9e/50/Spain-PM-s-wife-testifies-before-ju-711717_small.jpg)
Spain PM's wife testifies before judge in graft pr...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife arrived at a Madrid court to testify before a judge Friday as part of a preliminary co...
![Rap mogul Sean Combs sued for sex trafficking, sex assault](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d2/29/36/Rap-mogul-Sean-Combs-sued-for-sex-t-224710_small.jpg)
Rap mogul Sean Combs sued for sex trafficking, sex...
Superstar rapper and music industry mogul Sean Combs has been sued by a former adult film star for sexual assault and sex traffick...
![Colombian dens of iniquity recycled to serve victims](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/6b/a1/b3/Colombian-dens-of-iniquity-recycled-654425_small.jpg)
Colombian dens of iniquity recycled to serve victi...
In a mansion with golden faucets and an oyster-shaped bathtub, Colombian paramilitary fighters and drug lords once planned the mos...
![DR Congo sentences 25 soldiers to death for 'fleeing the enemy': lawyer](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/12/78/64/DR-Congo-sentences-25-soldiers-to-d-701320_small.jpg)
DR Congo sentences 25 soldiers to death for 'fleei...
Twenty-five soldiers accused of "fleeing the enemy" while fighting M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sentenced t...
![Tens of thousands flee south Gaza as tensions soar](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/bd/1f/9e/Tens-of-thousands-flee-south-Gaza-a-704242_small.jpg)
Tens of thousands flee south Gaza as tensions soar
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled southern Gaza since Israel issued an evacuation order, amid fears of a new offensive i...
!['The god took away my son': Indians grieve after deadly stampede](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5e/de/27/-The-god-took-away-my-son---Indians-148230_small.jpg)
'The god took away my son': Indians grieve after d...
Hindu preacher Bhole Baba promised to improve the lives of poor Indian families struggling to get by.
![Germany, Sweden arrest eight over Syria crimes against humanity](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/03/ef/b4/Germany--Sweden-arrest-eight-over-S-007716_small.jpg)
Germany, Sweden arrest eight over Syria crimes aga...
Investigators in Germany and Sweden on Wednesday arrested eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government...
![Bhole Baba: preacher at centre of Indian stampede disaster](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/a8/05/f2/Bhole-Baba--preacher-at-centre-of-I-805187_small.jpg)
Bhole Baba: preacher at centre of Indian stampede...
Former police constable-turned-preacher Bhole Baba built an immense following among poor and marginalised Indians before his lates...
![France prosecutors request rape charges against film director](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/fe/1f/c0/France-prosecutors-request-rape-cha-261638_small.jpg)
France prosecutors request rape charges against fi...
French prosecutors have requested prominent arthouse film director Benoit Jacquot be charged with raping actors Isild Le Besco and...
![Schumacher blackmail suspects had 'family photos'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ee/37/2b/Schumacher-blackmail-suspects-had---227607_small.jpg)
Schumacher blackmail suspects had 'family photos'
Two men accused of trying to blackmail relatives of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher had access to private family photos, Ger...
![Six dead as floods inundate vast swath of India, Bangladesh](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/9b/42/fe/Six-dead-as-floods-inundate-vast-sw-552092_small.jpg)
Six dead as floods inundate vast swath of India, B...
Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inu...
![Japan's top court rules forced sterilisation law unconstitutional](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/60/72/f5/Japan-s-top-court-rules-forced-ster-904953_small.jpg)
Japan's top court rules forced sterilisation law u...
Japan's top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between...
![Tourists seek out Nordic holidays to keep cool](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/14/39/60/Tourists-seek-out-Nordic-holidays-t-183199_small.jpg)
Tourists seek out Nordic holidays to keep cool
Far from her home in the tourist mecca of Tenerife, Cati Padilla is one of the growing number of travellers escaping heatwaves for...
![Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 121](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d0/12/e4/Terror---chaos--as-India-stampede-k-918111_small.jpg)
Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 121
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded...
![Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 116](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/d0/12/e4/Terror---chaos--as-India-stampede-k-449979_small.jpg)
Terror, 'chaos' as India stampede kills 116
Survivors of India's deadliest stampede in over a decade on Wednesday recalled the horror of being crushed at a vastly overcrowded...
![US Supreme Court takes on porn age-verification case](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e4/fa/da/US-Supreme-Court-takes-on-porn-age--194195_small.jpg)
US Supreme Court takes on porn age-verification ca...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to a law in Republican-led Texas that requires pornographic websites to...
![French police release filmmaker, prepare to charge another over alleged sexual abuse](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/05/20/46/French-police-release-filmmaker--pr-641769_small.jpg)
French police release filmmaker, prepare to charge...
French authorities are preparing to press charges against a leading arthouse film director but released another one following day-...
![116 killed in stampede at India religious gathering](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f8/4a/e7/116-killed-in-stampede-at-India-rel-996123_small.jpg)
116 killed in stampede at India religious gatherin...
At least 116 people were crushed to death at an overcrowded Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, government off...
![107 killed in stampede at India religious gathering](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e3/d5/74/107-killed-in-stampede-at-India-rel-812551_small.jpg)
107 killed in stampede at India religious gatherin...
At least 107 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, with many others injured, a...
![French police question two filmmakers over alleged sexual abuse](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/05/20/46/French-police-question-two-filmmake-242729_small.jpg)
French police question two filmmakers over alleged...
French authorities on Tuesday were questioning two leading arthouse film directors for a second day after actors accused them of s...
![Judi Dench among first woman members of UK's Garrick Club: report](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f4/b0/1b/Judi-Dench-among-first-woman-member-297639_small.jpg)
Judi Dench among first woman members of UK's Garri...
Veteran actors Judi Dench and Sian Phillips have become the first woman members of London's esteemed Garrick Club after it voted i...
![Israel pounds Gaza after evacuation order](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/5d/ec/34/Israel-pounds-Gaza-after-evacuation-962906_small.jpg)
Israel pounds Gaza after evacuation order
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after the army again ordered Palestinians...
![Sinkholes spread fear in Turkey's parched breadbasket](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/9a/40/18/Sinkholes-spread-fear-in-Turkey-s-p-313919_small.jpg)
Sinkholes spread fear in Turkey's parched breadbas...
Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at a...
![Graft trial starts for Peru's Keiko Fujimori](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4d/a7/ea/Graft-trial-starts-for-Peru-s-Keiko-817841_small.jpg)
Graft trial starts for Peru's Keiko Fujimori
Three-time Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was in the dock Monday for the start of her trial on graft charges that...
![Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity claim, delaying trial](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/02/28/3b/Supreme-Court-rules-on-Trump-immuni-478971_small.jpg)
Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity claim, delay...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that wil...
![Nepal jails 'Buddha boy' for 10 years over child sex abuse](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/3f/16/6b/Nepal-jails--Buddha-boy--for-10-yea-010699_small.jpg)
Nepal jails 'Buddha boy' for 10 years over child s...
A Nepali court on Monday sentenced a man whose followers believe him to be a reincarnation of Buddha to 10 years in prison for chi...
![Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity, delaying trial](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/02/28/3b/Supreme-Court-rules-on-Trump-immuni-041514_small.jpg)
Supreme Court rules on Trump immunity, delaying tr...
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump enjoys some immunity from prosecution as a former president, a ruling that wil...