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Nigeria's ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, mediating in the Mali crisis for the West Africa bloc ECOWAS, says the organisation would probably decide on Friday whether it would lift economic sanctions against the country. Speaking in Mali's capital Bamako on Wednesday, Jonathan called the post-coup measures imposed on the country by the 15-nation bloc "unfortunate". SOUNDBITE
Le ténor italien Andrea Bocelli honore son 30ème anniversaire avec le film de son concert qu'il a donné dans sa ville natale, au Teatro del Silenzio, un amphithéâtre naturel au milieu des collines toscanes.
Voters in the German state of Thuringia begin casting their ballots in regional elections expected to deal a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government and deliver big gains for the far-right party AfD. The contests in Thuringia and Saxony come a week after three people were killed in a suspected Islamist attack, fuelling a bitter debate over immigration. IMAGES
Images show aircrafts at Beirut airport as Middle East tensions skyrocket following the killings last week of Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in an Israeli strike on a Beirut suburb and of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a strike on Tehran attributed to Israel. IMAGES
Thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum cheer in celebration at Mexico City's emblematic Zocalo square as the National Electoral Institute (Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE) announces her win as Mexico's new president-elect. Ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City and a scientist by training, is Mexico's the first female president-elect -- a milestone in a country plagued by rampant criminal and gender-based violence. IMAGES