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The HagueUkraine will cooperate in an investigation that should answer why Ukrainian airspace was not closed during the downing of flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said he received this commitment from Ukrainian President Zelenski.

DijonThe town's Socialist mayor has denounced the return of "unbearable criminal acts" in the city. He believes that the police force has been outnumbered by criminals.

Mexico stopped a caravan of around 2 000 migrants this week, dashing their hopes of reaching the United States.

OsloA Norwegian newspaper reported this week that the country will not be buying into the US- and NATO-backed missile defense programme.

Julien Odoul, a member of Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) and other elected RN officials created a controversy by asking a woman accompanying the class of her son to remove her veil at a plenary meeting of the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comté, on Friday, October 11.

This week, as every year, the Nobel Prize winners were announced. The winners in the categories physics, chemistry and medicine are, as in many years before, exclusively male.

ParisSix days after the attack on the police headquarters in Paris, the police do not seem to be the only ones facing the fight against Islamist radicalization.

JohannesburgAn Israeli-born psychologist who had focused on hate crimes was brutally murdered in South Africa in her Johannesburg home, according to police.

BerlinThe parliamentary group leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, has sharply criticized the spurious accusations that AfD bears some complicity for the attack on a synagogue in Halle.

ParisThe Interior Minister is considered "clumsy", "without authority" and "incompetent" by two French citizens out of three.