Unions representing staff on the Paris metro staged strikes on Friday to denounce rising crime linked to crack and heroin use on the network. The CGT and SUD unions called for the walkout to protest the increasing presence of drug addicts at stations on the northern end of the lines 4 and 12. Some conductors…

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Zimbabwe has pardoned 2,000 prisoners to make space in its overcrowded jails with authorities appealing to the released convicts not to return to a life of crime, state media reported Thursday.

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda was Thursday to address his war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court, speaking publicly for the first time since he surrendered to the US embassy in Kigali in 2013. Ntaganda, also dubbed "The Terminator," faces 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity before the Hague-based court, where his…