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!['12 hurt' in Yemen rebel drone attack on Saudi airport](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4b/08/ed/-12-hurt--in-Yemen-rebel-drone-atta-544594_small.jpg)
'12 hurt' in Yemen rebel drone attack on Saudi air...
Twelve people were injured by falling debris Thursday as the Saudi military blew up a Yemeni rebel drone targeting an airport clos...
![California suit accuses Tesla of racial segregation at factory](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ce/4b/79/California-suit-accuses-Tesla-of-ra-714968_small.jpg)
California suit accuses Tesla of racial segregatio...
California has sued Telsa alleging discrimination and harassment against Black workers at the electric carmaker's San Francisco ar...
![France says won't stand for Canada-style 'Freedom Convoys'](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/f1/9c/0c/France-says-won-t-stand-for-Canada--918444_small.jpg)
France says won't stand for Canada-style 'Freedom...
French police warned Thursday they would prevent so-called "Freedom Convoys" from blockading Paris, as protesters against Covid ru...
![French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim footballers](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/0c/7e/9d/French-minister-condemns-headscarf--591118_small.jpg)
French minister condemns headscarf ban for Muslim...
France's gender equality minister threw her support on Thursday behind Muslim women footballers who are seeking to overturn a ban...
![Bangladesh cricketer tried in rare adultery case](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ff/e4/f4/Bangladesh-cricketer-tried-in-rare--759449_small.jpg)
Bangladesh cricketer tried in rare adultery case
Bangladeshi national cricketer Nasir Hossain has gone on trial charged with adultery after a man claimed the batsman illegally mar...
![Hardline Hindu monk seeks re-election in key Indian state](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/40/9d/6c/Hardline-Hindu-monk-seeks-re-electi-118458_small.jpg)
Hardline Hindu monk seeks re-election in key India...
India's most populous state went to the polls Thursday in a key popularity test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationali...
![Tonga virus cases surge in wake of eruption](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ef/d8/12/Tonga-virus-cases-surge-in-wake-of--446664_small.jpg)
Tonga virus cases surge in wake of eruption
The Omicron variant coronavirus entered Tonga for the first time in the wake of last month's volcanic eruption, officials confirme...
!['Dutch' and 'Razzlekhan,': US couple behind record bitcoin haul](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/2b/a9/6f/-Dutch--and--Razzlekhan----US-coupl-197540_small.jpg)
'Dutch' and 'Razzlekhan,': US couple behind record...
She's accused of laundering billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin with her husband, but her alleged crimes are likely to be oversh...
![Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 92 amid calls for aid](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ff/2c/a4/Madagascar-cyclone-toll-rises-to-92-226246_small.jpg)
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 92 amid calls for...
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 92 in Madagascar, authorities said Wednesday, as humanitarian organisat...
![West Ham fine Zouma for abusing cat as pets are taken into care](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e8/ee/03/West-Ham-fine-Zouma-for-abusing-cat-002262_small.jpg)
West Ham fine Zouma for abusing cat as pets are ta...
West Ham on Wednesday fined Kurt Zouma the "maximum amount possible" for mistreating his pet cat as the RSPCA charity said it had...
![Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 80](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ff/2c/a4/Madagascar-cyclone-toll-rises-to-80-141466_small.jpg)
Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 80
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 80, Madagascar's authorities said Wednesday, releasing data from the re...
![Dutch museum grapples with history of Indonesian independence](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/76/5a/e2/Dutch-museum-grapples-with-history--961416_small.jpg)
Dutch museum grapples with history of Indonesian i...
A bullet-torn shirt and photos of freedom fighters are among the exhibits documenting Indonesia's struggle for independence from t...
!['I didn't kill anyone,' Paris terror attacker claims](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/78/f6/e6/-I-didn-t-kill-anyone---Paris-terro-434444_small.jpg)
'I didn't kill anyone,' Paris terror attacker clai...
The only assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 said Wednesday that "I didn't kill anyo...
![Fresh hopes for landmark treaty to rescue ocean life](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/c0/f9/e3/Fresh-hopes-for-landmark-treaty-to--134434_small.jpg)
Fresh hopes for landmark treaty to rescue ocean li...
World leaders are under pressure to conclude years of talks on an agreement to protect open oceans that help sustain life on Earth...
!['My work is not done': jailed Duterte critic runs for Senate](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ee/13/db/-My-work-is-not-done---jailed-Duter-421106_small.jpg)
'My work is not done': jailed Duterte critic runs...
From behind bars, Philippine senator and human rights campaigner Leila de Lima is running for re-election in an against-the-odds c...
![Hindu pride and Muslim fears overshadow key Indian poll](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/65/fa/66/Hindu-pride-and-Muslim-fears-oversh-965397_small.jpg)
Hindu pride and Muslim fears overshadow key Indian...
Hindu worshippers from across India gather each morning to pray in Ayodhya, near where a historic mosque was torn down three decad...
![Top UN court to rule on massive DR Congo reparation claim](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/80/01/41/Top-UN-court-to-rule-on-massive-DR--484873_small.jpg)
Top UN court to rule on massive DR Congo reparatio...
The UN's top court will rule Wednesday in a long-running compensation fight between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, w...
![Shaken by fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b7/82/d3/Shaken-by-fracking-quakes--Texas-is-422174_small.jpg)
Shaken by fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act
"You get used to it. The walls shake," says Sam, a resident of Midland, a town in west Texas where hydraulic fracturing for oil an...
![Witnesses draw damning portrait of US teen shooter's parents in court](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/85/c2/27/Witnesses-draw-damning-portrait-of--444461_small.jpg)
Witnesses draw damning portrait of US teen shooter...
The parents of a teenager who shot dead four people at a high school in Michigan had ignored the boy's psychiatric problems and hi...
![Ottawa protesters against Covid restrictions dig in for long haul](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/ea/5e/b1/Ottawa-protesters-against-Covid-res-825412_small.jpg)
Ottawa protesters against Covid restrictions dig i...
Seated around a campfire flanked by big rigs, with a view of parliament, bleary-eyed protesters on their 12th day of occupying Can...
![At least 11 dead in Colombia mudslide](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/93/4e/a9/At-least-11-dead-in-Colombia-mudsli-424311_small.jpg)
At least 11 dead in Colombia mudslide
At least 11 people died and 35 were injured in a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Colombia on Tuesday, the national disaster...
![West Ham start Zouma despite cat kicking shame](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/79/f1/97/West-Ham-start-Zouma-despite-cat-ki-840383_small.jpg)
West Ham start Zouma despite cat kicking shame
Kurt Zouma was named in the West Ham starting line-up for Tuesday's Premier League clash with Watford despite apologising for a vi...
![Canadian anti-vax truckers inspire copycat protests](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/cc/ca/11/Canadian-anti-vax-truckers-inspire--768444_small.jpg)
Canadian anti-vax truckers inspire copycat protest...
A protest movement by Canadian truckers angered over Covid vaccine rules has become a rallying point for opponents of pandemic res...
![Taliban in Geneva for diplomatic, humanitarian talks](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/8f/d5/c8/Taliban-in-Geneva-for-diplomatic--h-044460_small.jpg)
Taliban in Geneva for diplomatic, humanitarian tal...
A Taliban delegation was in Geneva on Tuesday for a week of NGO-hosted talks on humanitarian access and human rights, as crisis-be...
![US seizes $3.6 bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/4e/94/44/US-seizes--3-6-bn-of-stolen-bitcoin-414613_small.jpg)
US seizes $3.6 bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul
The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 bil...
![African migrants face racism, violence in Brazil](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/11/33/30/African-migrants-face-racism--viole-441316_small.jpg)
African migrants face racism, violence in Brazil
The brutal murder of a Congolese man at a Rio de Janeiro beach has cast a harsh spotlight on the ordeals African migrants face in...
![West Ham's Zouma apologises for abusing cat in shocking online video](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/79/f1/97/West-Ham-s-Zouma-apologises-for-abu-524236_small.jpg)
West Ham's Zouma apologises for abusing cat in sho...
West Ham and France defender Kurt Zouma has apologised after a disturbing video surfaced of him kicking and slapping a cat, with t...
![Burkina prosecutors seek 30 years for ex-leader Compaore over Sankara murder](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/46/dd/b8/Burkina-prosecutors-seek-30-years-f-443649_small.jpg)
Burkina prosecutors seek 30 years for ex-leader Co...
Military prosecutors on Tuesday called for a 30-year jail term against Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore for the 198...
![Ex-pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over abuse scandal](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/9c/79/60/Ex-pope-Benedict-XVI-asks-for-forgi-824343_small.jpg)
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over abu...
Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegat...
![Indonesian croc freed after five years trapped in tyre](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/e5/e2/1c/Indonesian-croc-freed-after-five-ye-621564_small.jpg)
Indonesian croc freed after five years trapped in...
A wild crocodile in Indonesia who was trapped in a tyre for more than five years has been rescued, freed from its rubber vice and...
![Australia 'denied access' to citizen detained in Hong Kong](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/7b/e0/6a/Australia--denied-access--to-citize-426424_small.jpg)
Australia 'denied access' to citizen detained in H...
Australia has for the last year been denied access to a citizen arrested in Hong Kong, diplomats revealed Tuesday, the latest case...
![American lawyer jailed again for assaulting Hong Kong police](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/29/af/65/American-lawyer-jailed-again-for-as-141278_small.jpg)
American lawyer jailed again for assaulting Hong K...
An American lawyer working in Hong Kong lost his appeal Tuesday and was jailed for assaulting a plainclothes policeman when he int...
![Iran 'jail restaurant' aims to free bad debt inmates](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/b3/72/55/Iran--jail-restaurant--aims-to-free-588582_small.jpg)
Iran 'jail restaurant' aims to free bad debt inmat...
Two Iranian ex-prisoners have opened a successful "jail restaurant" to help raise funds to free convicts languishing behind bars f...
![In Venezuela, newspaper HQ handed to govt official](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/bf/7d/25/In-Venezuela--newspaper-HQ-handed-t-646818_small.jpg)
In Venezuela, newspaper HQ handed to govt official...
A Venezuelan court has officially handed over the headquarters of the newspaper El Nacional to Diosdado Cabello, widely seen as th...
Humanitarian crisis feared as cyclone kills 21 in...
Cyclone Batsirai swept out of Madagascar on Monday after killing 21 people, displacing 70,000 and devastating the drought-hit isla...
![Spirit to merge with Frontier, creating major low-cost US airline](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/af/9a/d3/Spirit-to-merge-with-Frontier--crea-281186_small.jpg)
Spirit to merge with Frontier, creating major low-...
Budget US carriers Spirit and Frontier announced Monday they will merge to create a competitive low-cost airline, in an industry "...
![Morocco buries little Rayan who died trapped in well](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/dd/d4/43/Morocco-buries-little-Rayan-who-die-314440_small.jpg)
Morocco buries little Rayan who died trapped in we...
Moroccans on Monday attended the funeral of Rayan, a five-year-old boy who spent five days trapped down a well, sparking a vast re...
![Sweden's PriceRunner sues Google for 2.1 bn euros](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/19/53/07/Sweden-s-PriceRunner-sues-Google-fo-066166_small.jpg)
Sweden's PriceRunner sues Google for 2.1 bn euros
Swedish price comparison site PriceRunner said Monday it was suing tech giant Google for 2.1 billion euros ($2.4 billion) for prom...
![New report alleges widespread Pegasus spying by Israel police](https://www.lindependance.lu/media/shared/articles/23/c7/8c/New-report-alleges-widespread-Pegas-662461_small.jpg)
New report alleges widespread Pegasus spying by Is...
Police used Pegasus spyware to hack phones of dozens of prominent Israelis, including a son of former premier Benjamin Netanyahu,...