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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.

The town is in Cabo Delgado, a gas-rich northern province where Islamic State-linked militants started an insurgency in 2017. Despite a large security response, there has been a surge in attacks since January this year.

"Macomia is under... (continue reading...)

By Mahamat Ramadane and Anait Miridzhanian

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Several people were hurt and some may have been killed in gunfire celebrating Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby's declared election victory on Thursday, an Amnesty International representative said, citing reports from partners.

Overnight, volleys of shots could be heard in the capital N'Djamena in the hours after the state election agency announced Deby had won a... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Four men will go on trial next year accused of setting fire to a London commercial property linked to Ukraine, an arson attack allegedly paid for by Russian intelligence, a British court heard on Friday.

They were charged last month over the fire at a commercial premises on an industrial estate in east London in March.

Dylan Earl, 20, who is accused of two offences under the National Security Act, is alleged to have... (continue reading...)

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy added five times the number of jobs that were forecast for April and the unemployment rate unexpectedly held at 6.1%, but wages grew at the slowest pace in 10 months, data showed on Friday.

The economy added a net 90,400 jobs while analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a gain of 18,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to rise to 6.2%.

The gains - largest since the 110,000 jobs added in January 2023 -... (continue reading...)

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Friday that the government would push ahead with the bill on "foreign agents" despite opposition from what he cast as "misled" youngsters who feel resentment towards Russia.

The legislation, which would require organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence, has sparked street protests in Georgia by those who see it as... (continue reading...)