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3 years agoNine Dead After Floods In Sri Lanka, Southern India
Nine people are dead and two others missing after floods in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India caused by more than a week of pounding rains, IgbereTV reports. ...
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3 years agoObama Says Youth ‘Right To Be Frustrated’ At Climate Inaction
Former US President Barack Obama said Monday he understood why young people were “frustrated” with climate inaction from leaders and that “most cou...
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3 years agoUS Reopening Borders After 20 Months
The United States reopens its land and air borders Monday to foreign visitors fully vaccinated against COVID-19, ending 20 months of restrictions on travel from around the globe that...
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3 years agoNine rebel groups join forces against Ethiopian govt
The Tigray rebels fighting to overthrow the Ethiopian government says it is joining efforts with eight other groups in an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed t...
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3 years agoDozens Dead In Niger Republic Attack
A jihadist attack in Niger’s volatile “tri-border” zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a self-defence militia, local sources told AFP on Thursday, I...
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3 years agoSenior Taliban Commander Killed In Hospital Attack
A Taliban military commander was killed when his men responded to an Islamic State suicide bomb and gun attack on a hospital in the Afghan capital, officials said Wedne...
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3 years agoMexican President Slams COP26 ‘Hypocrisy’
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Wednesday slammed participants in a major UN climate summit for their “hypocrisy,” accusing them of failing to address the ...
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3 years agoGermany Hit By Record Surge In COVID-19 Cases
Germany on Thursday saw its biggest daily rise in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began, figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) health agency showed, IgbereTV report...
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3 years agoWorld Food Prices Hit 10-Year High
Global food prices jumped to a 10-year high in October, a UN agency announced on Thursday as it said the world’s cereal stocks were set to contract, IgbereTV reports. The Food...
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3 years agoPope Names Raffaella Petrini As First Woman To Head Vatican Governorate
Pope Francis appointed a woman on Thursday to head up the governorate of the Vatican, as he forges ahead with a mission to achieve greater gender e...
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3 years agoChina Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal Faster Than Anticipated – Pentagon
China is expanding its nuclear arsenal much more quickly than anticipated, narrowing the gap with the United States, the Pentagon said in a repor...
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3 years agoUS Strike That Killed 10 Afghan Civilians Did Not Violate Law Of War – Pentagon Probe
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon...
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3 years agoTigray Crisis: UN Calls For More Probe Into Genocide Claims
The UN rights chief said Wednesday more investigation was needed into allegations of genocide in the Tigray conflict, countering Ethiopia’s claims the allega...
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3 years agoBus Plunges Into Ditch, Kills 20 In Pakistan
At least 20 people including children were killed on Wednesday when a bus plunged into a ravine in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, officials said, IgbereTV reports. “...
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3 years agoGeorgia Destroys 17,000 Vaccine Doses As Rollout Slows
Health officials in Georgia sounded the alarm Wednesday over the slow pace of coronavirus vaccinations, after some 17,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had to be...
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3 years agoGunmen Attack Town In Eastern DR Congo, Kill Nine
Six rebels, two policemen and a soldier were killed when an armed group raided the eastern DR Congo town of Bukavu early Wednesday, the governor of South Kivu province s...
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3 years agoTurkey Probes Tweets About President Erdogan’s Health
Turkey’s cyber police on Wednesday launched a legal probe into “baseless” social media posts speculating about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s health, Igb...
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3 years agoPeru Minister Resigns After Holding Party That Breached COVID-19 Rules
Peru’s interior minister resigned Tuesday following reports that he held a Halloween party at his home in violation of Covid-19 rules, IgbereTV re...
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3 years agoUK Defends PM’s Plan To Jet Out Of COP26
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fly back to London from Glasgow rather than taking the train, Downing Street said Monday hours after he chided world leaders for not doing mor...
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3 years agoBiden Apologises For Trump Exit From Climate Accord
US President Joe Biden on Monday apologised to world leaders for his predecessor Donald Trump’s withdrawal from a global climate accord and said fighting the crisis ...
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