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Bamako, the capital of Mali, is boosting security measures amid forthcoming Africa-France summit, media reported on Tuesday.

Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for US attorney general, pledged to recuse himself from any future probes involving former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to confirmation testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

The special Indian agency for probing terror cases plans to designate the alleged Pakistani masterminds of the attack on an air base as proclaimed offenders.

English patriotism is rising while the British identity is declining, with English residents increasingly likely to describe themselves as purely English, a YouGov survey has suggested.

Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. India wants to justify closer ties with Israel on grounds that it will help its farmers.

The Russian Helicopters holding has delivered two Kamov Ka-32A11BC helicopters to China's Jiangsu Baoli Aviation Equipment Investment, the manufacturer said Tuesday in a statement.

A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Tuesday off the Solomon Islands in South Pacific, the US Geological Survey (USGS) agency warned.

Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be hard to capture alive as, according to the intelligence, he is sleeping in a suicide vest, the spokesman for the US-led coalition’s Combined Joint Task Force in Iraq said Tuesday.

Russian military has delivered more than 3 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the residents of the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

The building of a new Chinese arctic icebreaker in addition to already existing analog vessel Xuelong has given rise to numerous speculations. The project is much talked about in the context of China’s growing global influence, geographical expansion of Chinese naval voyages, and rising interest in Arctic resources as a whole.

The issue of the Cyprus reunification can only be settled if all the parties to conflict reach an agreement on all controversial aspects.

The UK is looking forward to boost trading relationship with the US amid Brexit, a UK Department for International Trade (DIT) spokesperson told Sputnik on Tuesday.

The OSCE Minsk Group should react quickly to Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire violations, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said Tuesday.

Three parties in Iceland have agreed to form a coalition government to end the country's two-and-a-half month-long political impasse, with the parliament to also vote on whether to hold a referendum on joining the European Union.

There is almost no risk of Iran exceeding the cap on heavy water set in its nuclear deal with world powers.

Police in the US state of Alabama responded to a robbery and an active hostage situation at the Alabama Credit Union Bank branch. Later, the suspect who took hostages at the bank was taken into custody. Nobody was injured.

Turkey currently considers the possibility to grant the country's citizenship to the Syrian refugees currently being in Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.

A total of 213 families have left western parts of the Iraqi province of Anbar bordering Syria since the start of the operation to liberate it from Daesh, Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displacement said Tuesday.

Two explosions hit a hotel in Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday during a meeting between the governor of Kandahar province, a local police chief, and a high-ranking UAE diplomat, TOLO News television reported. Nine were killed and 16 injured, local TV reported.

The existing mechanisms for cooperation between Moscow and Washington in the field of cybersecurity would be helpful to resolve the current crisis in bilateral ties, cybersecurity consultant Oleg Demidov said. However, according to the expert, those mechanisms are unlikely to be resumed in the near future.

The United States and its partners around the world need to develop a new comprehensive plan to tackle the global refugee crisis, outgoing US Secretary of State John Kerry said during a conference at the US Institute for Peace on Tuesday.

Mute people may soon speak out loud. Russian schoolboy Valery Strizheus invented a "talking" glove, which translates sign language into words understandable to others.

The UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has described the political crisis in Northern Ireland as "grave" and says the government is treating it "with the utmost seriousness" after the collapse of the power-sharing arrangement over a botched energy deal.

The Transnistrian leader reversed his predecessor's order of the armed forces usage for counterterrorism defense.

The United States has added United Kingdom national Alexanda Amon Kotey, also known as Abu-Salih al-Baritani, to the terror list and imposed sanctions on him for membership in a Daesh execution cell known as "The Beatles," the US Department of State said in a press release on Tuesday.