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Ministries next to the presidential palace have also been blocked off, according to Reuters news agency.

The West African bloc is to discuss strengthening a regional standby force to tackle insecurity and threats of coups.

The ex-Ireland player has survived alcohol addiction and suicide attempts to become a Women's World Cup commentator.

Alison Rose says discussing Nigel Farage's relationship with bank with a journalist was a 'serious error of judgment'.

Blinken, who is in Tonga to dedicate a new embassy, is the first US Secretary of State to visit the Pacific nation.

ALGIERS: Algerian firefighters were on Tuesday battling blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed homes and coastal resorts and turned vast forest areas into blackened wastelands. Witnesses described fleeing walls of flames that raged “like a blowtorch” as TV footage showed charred cars, burnt-out shops and smoldering fields and scrubland. Severe fires have raged through the mountain forests of the Kabylia region on the Mediterranean coast, fanned by winds amid blistering summer heat that peaked at 48 degrees Celsius on Monday.

Ministry of Communication and Informatics says it is in contact with social media company about purpose of the domain.