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Ireland thrash Italy 63-10 in Six Nations

A hat-trick of tries for CJ Stander and Craig Gilroy, and nine conversions from fly-half Paddy Jackson, relaunched Ireland's Six Nations title hopes Saturday with a record 63-10 win over Italy in Rome. Ireland, the 2015 champions, arrived in the Eternal City looking to make amends for a...

15,000 European Kurds protest for leader's release

Some 15,000 people marched in the eastern French city of Strasbourg Saturday demanding that Turkey release Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan, as Europe's Kurds held their biggest annual gathering. Organizers estimated that between 15,000 and 17,000 people, many arriving by coach or...

Spain's divided Podemos starts crucial congress

Shouting "yes we can" and "unity", thousands of Podemos supporters gathered Saturday at a decisive two-day meeting in Madrid that could unseat the charismatic leader of one of Europe's leading far-left parties. Born in 2014 out of the Indignados anti-austerity protest movement that swept...

Fears of escalation after militias enter Libya's Tripoli

A group of Libyan militias entered the capital Tripoli this week and said they were creating a "Libyan National Guard", to the alarm of the country's unity government and Washington. The Libyan capital has been controlled by dozens of militias with shifting loyalties and territories since...