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The United States has designated journalist Evan Gershkovich as being "wrongfully detained" by Russia and called for his immediate release. Mr Gershkovich, an experienced Russia reporter, was arrested last month in the city of Yekaterinburg while working for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). He has since been formally charged with spying, but the WSJ denies this. It is the first time Moscow has accused a US journalist of espionage since the Soviet era.

Forty-four civilians have been killed by “armed terrorist groups” in two villages in north-eastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday. The provisional toll of “this despicable and barbaric attack” which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi overnight on Thursday “is 44 civilians killed and others wounded,” said Rodolphe Sorgho, lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region.

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