Poland's right-wing head of state Andrzej Duda arrives at his headquarters to the applause of his supporters as he is ahead by a tiny margin in the presidential run-off against Warsaw's liberal mayor, according to an exit poll.

Polish presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski of the opposition Civic Platform addresses supporters in Warsaw on election night as President Andrzej Duda leads by a small margin, according to an exit poll.

Polish president Andrzej Duda says Poland's democracy is becoming 'increasingly mature' and that in terms of governing the country, during his tenure the country has begun taking matters into its 'own hands' .

Influential Malian imam and protest leader Mahmoud Dicko leads prayers at his mosque for the civilian victims killed in clashes amid escalating demonstrations demanding President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's resignation.

On his arrival in French Guiana, at the Matoury air base, French Prime Minister Jean Castex visits a medicalised A400M aircraft that is helping to fight the coronavirus epidemic, which is still very active in the French Overseas Territory.

The Tokyo art exhibit opened to enthusiastic visitors, but many of those circulating weren't just there to soak in some culture -- they were casing the joint for a midnight raid. Hours after the gallery closed for the night, a crowd had gathered r...

The bodies of the civilians killed in clashes in Mali's capital Bamako are brought to the mosque of influential imam and opposition coalition leader Mahmoud Dicko for funeral prayers. Mali is experiencing the worst civil unrest in years as demonst...

British Home Secretary Priti Patel travels to Calais to meet her French counterpart Gérald Darmanin for talks.

Warsaw mayor and opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski votes in Rybnik. The liberal faces incumbent Andrzej Duda in a knife-edge presidential election.

France's Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, arrive in Calais for a trip on the issue of migrants, during which the Minister is to meet his British counterpart, Priti Patel.

Sylvia Arthur, a Ghanaian of British origin, gives a tour of her "decolonised library" that she founded in Accra to honour African and Black literature. With this initiative, she hopes that Ghanaians and Africans will find pride in their literary ...

Residents in the Polish capital Krakow vote in the final round of the presidential election as incumbent Andrzej Duda faces off against Rafal Trzaskowski.

Poles begin voting in a knife-edge presidential election between a populist incumbent closely allied with US President Donald Trump and a europhile liberal who wants to restore ties with Brussels.

The UN Security Council announces it voted to restart cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria, but with only a single access point into the war-torn country.

An Indonesian doctor runs a facility that shelters about 1400 dogs, many which were rescued from slaughterhouses with their mouths and legs tied, abandoned or sold during the coronavirus pandemic. Susana Somali, the shelter owner, has launched a h...

France's new Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, makes her first trip to the Fontainebleau Forest, to launch the awareness campaign of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) for the protection of nature and biodiversity during the su...

Burning barricades litter the streets of Mali's capital Bamako a day after violent protests against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta left two dead and 70 injured, and an opposition movement vows to keep up the pressure. COMPLETES VID1V04RM_EN

Several hundred people are taking part in a white march in Aiguillon in Lot-et-Garonne to pay tribute to the 25-year-old gendarme who was mowed down last weekend by a hit-and-run driver trying to evade a road check.

The opposition movement that has organised protests against Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta will keep up demonstrations 'until the end of the regime', a spokesman tells AFP, after at least two people were killed and 70 injured in violence ...

France's new PM Jean Castex urged his ministers to get "out in the field" to "measure the concrete effects of the decisions we will have to take", said governement spokesman Gabriel Attal, at the end of a government seminar that the Prime Minister...

Ministers from Jean Castex's government meet in the French Prime Minister's office, rue de Ségur in Paris, for a work meeting.

The public pays tribute to Park Won-soon, late mayor of Seoul, a contender to be South Korea's next president and a former human rights lawyer, who took his own life a day after he was accused of sexual harassment.

Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa paints to fight against the new coronavirus in his own way. Moussa raises public awareness of the virus through a series of paintings entitled "Corona".

Japanese baseball fans shrugged off a record spike in coronavirus cases in Tokyo as they flocked back to stadiums for the first time in months Friday.

This week in Africa Weekly: More than 500,000 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed on the continent, with numbers climbing fast. Elsewhere, Ivory Coast reels following the death of prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, and Madagascar's lemurs f...

Protesters hurl firecrackers and flares at police in a fourth night of demonstrations against President Aleksandar Vucic and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

France's coronavirus death toll has exceeded 30,000 after the country logged 25 fatalities since Thursday, health authorities said Friday.

France's coronavirus death toll has exceeded 30,000 after the country logged 25 fatalities since Thursday, health authorities said Friday.

In Istanbul, people celebrate the decision of a top Turkish court to revoke the sixth-century Hagia Sophia's status as a museum, clearing the way for the Istanbul landmark to be turned back into a mosque in a move backed by President Recep Tayyip ...

Serbians gather in Belgrade for a fourth night of demonstrations over the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Protesters in Mali's capital Bamako block two of the city's main bridges during a protest against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN Christoph Heusgen announces that a UN Security Council resolution to prolong cross-border humanitarian aid to war-torn Syria has not been adopted after two permanent members, Russia and China, voted to...

Polish opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski arrives at a rally in Raciborz on the last day of the campaign before the second round of the presidential election. The liberal contender could narrowly defeat Poland's right-wing incumbent president ...

Health workers and an ambulance are seen outside Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami as Florida reports its highest daily death count from COVID-19 so far.

US President Trump arrives in Miami to participate in a briefing on drug trafficking, as the White House confirms his rally in New Hampshire on Saturday will be cancelled because of a "big storm".

Intense outbreaks of the new coronavirus can still be brought under control, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says.

Two Asian lion cubs, born on April 29th at the Rome Zoological Park, can now be seen in the enclosure with their mother and father. Zookeepers say the birth of these Asian lion cubs is excellent news as it is one of the most endangered animals on ...

People celebrate outside Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that it would be reopened for Muslim worship, sparking fury in the Christian community and neighbouring Greece.

Polish President Andrzej Duda holds a rally in Rzeszow on the last day of the campaign ahead of the presidential run-off, with counter-demonstrators also attending. Originally scheduled for May 10, the election was postponed by over a month due to...

Nurse Damaris Silva plays her violin down the corridors of El Pino public hospital in Santiagio, Chile, bringing melodies and comfort to patients, some of which are trying to beat COVID-19.

Protesters gather in Bamako urging President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign over his perceived inability to resolve Mali's economic woes and bloody jihadist conflict.

An entrepreneur from Pusignan has offered a ton and a half of organic green beans from his production to Lyon to celebrate the French city's new 'Green' mayor. The entrepreneur is asking the city, now under the control of Europe Ecology - Green Pa...

During a trip to Strasbourg, France's new Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot talks about the impact of Covid-19 on the art and entertainment industry.

As Cuba suffers from the economic crisis brought by the coronavirus pandemic, residents are turning to urban gardens to grow their own food and survive these trying times.

A carpenter, commissioned by the New Delhi based NGO World Peace Organisation, makes low-cost coffins with plyboard for coronavirus victims and given for free to poor families that cannot afford them. India’s Covid-19 death toll is the eighth high...

The beauty of the villages of Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi is world famous, but today the normally bustling streets are practically empty. With fewer boats bobbing around the harbour and no traffic jams on the coast road leading to the villages, ...

China says it will impose tit-for-tat measures on US institutions and individuals who "behave badly" on Xinjiang-related issues after Washington slapped sanctions on Chinese officials over a crackdown on Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the reg...

The trial of a popular governor of a region in Russia's Far East, Khabarovsk, begins in a Moscow district court. Sergei Furgal, 50, was arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of several businessmen 15 years ago. Authorities are probing two m...