An Austrian court has ruled that UK historian David Irving - jailed for denying the Holocaust - should be released on probation.
The court had heard calls for both a reduction and increase in the three-year sentence.
Irving was convicted in February in a case that sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
In 1989 [...]

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Rescuers fear at least 100 suspected African migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off Senegal.
The boat set out in early December with as many as 124 people on board, thought to be headed for the Canary Island, but it ran aground in bad weather.
Fishermen rescued 24 people from the boat on Saturday off the [...]

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