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She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.

In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things. Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes, for the shores of the Netherlands are teeming with hundreds of thousands of them.

he Group of Seven industrial powers pledged on Friday to seek strong global growth, while papering over differences on currencies and stimulus policies and expressing concern over North Korea, Russia and maritime disputes involving China.

In a 2013 speech claiming victory over jihadists in Mali who had seized the north a year earlier, French President Francois Hollande said that if it had not been for his nation's military intervention, "today we would have terrorists here in Bamako".

The US and Turkey have agreed to work together to drive Islamic State (IS) jihadists from northern Syria, senior US officials said on Monday, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to press ahead with parallel strikes against Kurdish militants.

The far north of Cameroon, where a double suicide attack killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, has been regularly targeted by Nigerian Islamist extremists from Boko Haram.

A massive power cut caused chaos in and around the Dutch capital Amsterdam on Friday, including temporarily halting all flights at Schiphol International Airport, an airport spokeswoman and news reports said.

A massive power cut has caused chaos in and around the Dutch capital Amsterdam, including halting all flights to and from the busy Schiphol International Airport, an airport spokeswoman said.

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said today he fully supports efforts by the French and German leaders to secure a peaceful resolution to the now "critical" crisis in Ukraine.

The leaders of Germany and France are expected to take peace proposals to Moscow today on the second leg of a dramatic initiative to end a conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 5,000 people and driven Russia-West relations to new lows.

French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz today called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the country's east.

France's remaining hostage in the world, held since 2011 by Al Qaeda's north African arm, has been released, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday.

France's Socialist President Francois Hollande is defending himself against accusations by his ex-first lady that he despises the poor.

French investigators on Sunday scoured through the debris of a shattered Air Algerie jetliner in Mali's remote desert north to get to the cause of the third global air disaster in eight days.

Ukraine's new Western-backed leaders vowed on Wednesday to stick by their unilateral ceasefire and pursue peace talks despite the downing by pro-Russian militia of an army helicopter in the strife-torn separatist east.

She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.

In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things. Garbage, often. Porpoises, sometimes, for the shores of the Netherlands are teeming with hundreds of thousands of them.

he Group of Seven industrial powers pledged on Friday to seek strong global growth, while papering over differences on currencies and stimulus policies and expressing concern over North Korea, Russia and maritime disputes involving China.

In a 2013 speech claiming victory over jihadists in Mali who had seized the north a year earlier, French President Francois Hollande said that if it had not been for his nation's military intervention, "today we would have terrorists here in Bamako".

The US and Turkey have agreed to work together to drive Islamic State (IS) jihadists from northern Syria, senior US officials said on Monday, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to press ahead with parallel strikes against Kurdish militants.

The far north of Cameroon, where a double suicide attack killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, has been regularly targeted by Nigerian Islamist extremists from Boko Haram.

A massive power cut caused chaos in and around the Dutch capital Amsterdam on Friday, including temporarily halting all flights at Schiphol International Airport, an airport spokeswoman and news reports said.

A massive power cut has caused chaos in and around the Dutch capital Amsterdam, including halting all flights to and from the busy Schiphol International Airport, an airport spokeswoman said.

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said today he fully supports efforts by the French and German leaders to secure a peaceful resolution to the now "critical" crisis in Ukraine.

The leaders of Germany and France are expected to take peace proposals to Moscow today on the second leg of a dramatic initiative to end a conflict in Ukraine that has killed more than 5,000 people and driven Russia-West relations to new lows.

French President Francois Hollande and Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz today called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, and for Russia to stop supporting separatists fighting in the country's east.

France's remaining hostage in the world, held since 2011 by Al Qaeda's north African arm, has been released, President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday.

France's Socialist President Francois Hollande is defending himself against accusations by his ex-first lady that he despises the poor.

French investigators on Sunday scoured through the debris of a shattered Air Algerie jetliner in Mali's remote desert north to get to the cause of the third global air disaster in eight days.

Ukraine's new Western-backed leaders vowed on Wednesday to stick by their unilateral ceasefire and pursue peace talks despite the downing by pro-Russian militia of an army helicopter in the strife-torn separatist east.