International tourist arrivals doubled in 2022: UN

MADRID— International tourist arrivals doubled in 2022 over the previous year, and should reach near pre-pandemic levels in 2023 thanks to the lifting of travel restrictions, especially in China, the UN’s tourism body said.There were 917 million global...

African nations call out climate injustice ahead of COP27

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Mali Junta Says It Thwarted Coup Attempt

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Western Sahara’s Polisario breaks ties with Spain

Western Sahara’s Polisario breaks ties with Spain

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The Polisario independence movement on Sunday announced a “break” in contacts with the Spanish government in protest at its U-turn on the disputed territory of Western Sahara. “The Polisario Front has decided to break contacts with the current Spanish government” over its “instrumentalisation of the Western Sahara question in shameful bargaining with the (Moroccan) occupier”, the movement wrote in a statement. It said the break will last until Madrid “conforms with decisions of international legality, which recognises the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, and with respect for the b…