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BAMAKO — Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has told France to "decolonise" its history, in the latest verbal broadside between Paris and a former colony in Africa.

FRANKFURT — Germany inched towards a government led by Olaf Scholz after the Greens and the liberal FDP party said Wednesday they would try for a three-way tie-up with his Social Democrats while shunning Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

TUNIS — Tunisian security forces on Wednesday seized broadcasting equipment used by an unlicensed television station close to the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha Party, the country’s media authority said.

AMMAN — The Social Security Corporation’s (SSC) launch of the support programme for daycares’ operational costs, generally received positive feedback.

AMMAN — US Ambassador Henry T. Wooster on Wednesday met with Zarqa Governor Hijazi Assaf on a visit to the city.

AMMAN — Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office Niels Annen on Wednesday met with UNHCR Jordan Country Representative Dominik Bartsch during a working visit to the Kingdom.

KABUL — The reopening of the passport office in Kabul on Wednesday gave some Afghans who feel threatened under Taliban rule fresh hope they may soon be able to escape the country.

LONDON — European and UK gas prices surged on Wednesday to record peaks, energised by fears of runaway demand in the upcoming northern hemisphere winter.

By Rosa Sulleiro and Julien Sengel
Agence France-Presse

BARCELONA/STRASBOURG — David Aguilar was five when he first discovered Lego, entering a world where it didn’t matter he was missing his forearm, and four years later, he built his first prosthesis with it.

Now on the verge of finishing a degree in bioengineering, he dreams of working to help other children who, like him, were born different. 

Aguilar was born without a right forearm as a result of Poland syndrome,... Читать дальше...