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World leaders reach New York for UN General Assembly: North Korea, Rohingya crisis to top agenda

Facing an escalating threat from North Korea and exodus of minority Muslims from Myanmar, world leaders gather at UN starting Monday to tackle these challenges

Today's steaming pile: UAE, five other nations never wrote to FIFA to strip Qatar of 2022 World Cup

A story claiming that six Arab nations had written to FIFA demanding that Qatar be stripped of the World Cup in 2022 was published on what appeared to be a fake version of a Swiss news website, the site's co-founder has said.

UAE, five other nations write to FIFA to strip Qatar of 2022 World Cup, claims report

"The FIFA president has never received such a letter and subsequently has not done any comment on that," said a FIFA spokesman.

Gulf diplomatic crisis: A timeline of the dispute between Qatar and Arab nations

A recap of events since Saudi Arabia and several allies broke ties with Qatar, accusing it of backing extremists

Emmanuel Macron says France must work with Africa to eradicate 'terrorists, thugs, murderers'

France and its African partners must work together to wipe out Islamist militants, President Emmanuel Macron said at a summit in Mali's capital Bamako on Sunday.

Emmanuel Macron meets with five African heads of state to form 5,000-strong force to counter extremism

France's president meets Sunday in Mali with African heads of state to support a new 5,000-strong multinational force meant to counter extremism

Mali begins three days' mourning for victims of hotel attacks; neighbouring nations join in

Mali Monday started three days of national mourning for the victims of the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel that left 19 people dead in the capital Bamako, with neighbouring Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea joining in a show of solidarity.

In a 19-minute video, al Qaeda jihadist parades western hostages

Al-Qaeda's north African branch has released footage of a jihadist with an English accent parading two Western hostages he says are being held in "new territory" under its control.