Court orders police to speed up investigation on Sen. Abbo’s alleged assault on nursing mother

Two leading candidates of the conservative CDU and the far-right AfD in the state of Thuringia, Mario Voigt and Björn Höcke, clashed over issues such as migration and Europe.

The case had been noted as an extreme example of European governments' efforts to thwart NGOs helping migrants in the Mediterranean.

Fuel shortages in Nigeria have raised the price of gasoline and caused huge queues in cities like the capital Abuja, in a country already grappling with high inflation and a cost of living crisis.