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Emmanuel Macron's government will soon present a bill granting medically-assisted reproductive rights to single and lesbian women. The French president aims to avoid replicating his predecessor's strategic errors with same-sex marriage.

Emmanuel Macron's government will soon present a bill granting medically-assisted reproduction rights to single and lesbian women. The French president aims to avoid replicating his predecessor's strategic errors with same-sex marriage.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated Istanbul’s new international airport, which his government says will eventually become the world’s largest, with great fanfare on Monday.

The rise to power of a fire-breathing nostalgic of Brazil’s military dictatorship stands in stark contrast with the re-election in Ireland of a “poet-president” who believes in harnessing the power of language to heal and unite.

Exposure to toxic air both indoors and out kills some 600,000 children under the age of 15 each year, the World Health Organization warned on Monday.

The Maasai Marai is one of the most renowned and visited nature reserves in Kenya, home to millions of animals and famous for its sweeping savannahs. But this pillar of Kenya’s tourism is drying up at a rapid pace. The combined effects of upstream deforestation, booming demography and poor management of water resources mean an environmental disaster is in the making. A worrying trend as desertification continues to spread across vast swathes of the African continent. Our correspondents report.

A woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Monday, wounding 20 people including 10 police officers in an explosion that breaks a period of calm after dozens died in militant attacks three years ago.

A woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis near police vehicles on Monday, injuring nine people, the interior ministry said.

Jair Bolsonaro, the winner of Sunday’s Brazilian presidential election run-off, endorses an array of foreign policy positions akin to those of US President Donald Trump, on issues from the Israel-Palestine conflict to trade with China.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would not seek re-election as party chairwoman and that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last, heralding the end of a 13-year era in which she has dominated European politics.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at a conference in December, a senior party source said Monday. She will however remain chancellor.

The first Franco-Chinese satellite was launched into orbit on Monday to study ocean surface winds and waves around the clock, better predict cyclones and improve scientists' understanding of climate change.

Gabonese President Ali Bongo, hospitalised in Saudi Arabia since Wednesday, was taken into medical care after suffering a bout of exhaustion during a trip to Riyadh, his office said Sunday.

Georgia's presidential election will go to a runoff after no single candidate won outright in the first round of voting, the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Monday.

Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday places a man nostalgic for military dictatorship, with a history of misogynist, racist and homophobic comments, at the helm of Latin America’s largest democracy.