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3 years agoMan Kills Seven In China Knife Rampage
Police in central China were hunting Tuesday for a man who killed seven people including a village Communist Party chief before jumping off a bridge, IgbereTV reports. The s...
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3 years agoWomen Protest The World’s ‘Silence’ Over Crisis In Afghanistan
Women activists in Kabul held up signs that read “why is the world watching us die in silence?” on Tuesday, protesting the international community...
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3 years agoFormer South Korean President Roh Tae-Woo Dies
Former South Korean president and general Roh Tae-woo, who was instrumental in crushing the Gwangju Uprising at a cost of hundreds of lives, died of natural causes on T...
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3 years agoJapan’s Princess Mako Marries Years After ‘Pain’ Of Rumours
Japan’s Princess Mako married her university sweetheart on Tuesday, but it was a low-key union bereft of traditional rituals, with the couple voicing s...
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3 years agoQueen Elizabeth II Resumes Public Duties After Hospital Stay
Queen Elizabeth II resumed public duties on Tuesday for the first time since spending a night in the hospital last week, holding video calls with incoming amb...
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3 years agoUS Pauses $700mn In Aid To Sudan After Military Takeover
The United States on Monday suspended $700 million in aid to Sudan after a military takeover and urged the immediate restoration of a civilian government, IgbereT...
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3 years agoErdogan Steps Back From Threat To Expel Western Ambassadors
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rowed back on Monday from his threat to expel 10 Western envoys over their joint statement of support for a jailed civil...
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3 years agoUganda Suffers Second Deadly Explosion In Two Days
At least one person died and several were wounded in an explosion on Monday on a bus near the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said, as President Yoweri Museveni suggest...
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3 years agoTesla Tops $1trn In Market Value As Hertz Deal Fuels Latest Surge
Tesla became the latest US tech giant to hit $1 trillion in market value Monday as investors cheered a large order from Hertz and shrugged off criticism ...
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3 years agoEgypt Lifts State Of Emergency In Force Since 2017
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday announced the lifting of the state of emergency in place since deadly jihadist attacks on Coptic Christian churches mo...
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3 years agoSoldiers Open Fire On Protesters In Sudan After Military Coup
Crowds protested into the night in Sudan Monday to denounce a military coup, with chaos engulfing the capital Khartoum after soldiers opened fire on demonstr...
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3 years agoPoland Boosts Belarus Border Force To 10,000 Soldiers
Poland will increase to 10,000 the number of soldiers deployed to help border guards stop migrant crossings from Belarus, Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on ...
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3 years agoMore Than Half Of Afghans Face ‘Acute’ Food Crisis, Says UN Agencies
Afghanistan is on the brink of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, UN agencies warned Monday, with more than half the country facing ...
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3 years agoColombia To Extradite Drug Lord ‘Otoniel’ To US
Colombia’s government announced Sunday it is working towards extraditing the country’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” to the United States, a day after ...
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3 years agoMali Expels West African Bloc Representative
Mali’s interim government has expelled from the country the representative of West African bloc ECOWAS, the government said, over “actions incompatible with his station...
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3 years agoBaldwin Rehearsing Aiming Gun At Lens When Fired Shot: US Media
Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a scene that involved pointing a prop gun at the camera lens when he fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, US media rep...
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3 years agoColombia’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord ‘Otoniel’ Captured
Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker “Otoniel” has been captured, officials said Saturday, a major victory for the government of the world’s top cocain...
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3 years agoJihadist Fighters Kill 11 In DR Congo
Eleven civilians have been killed by jihadist fighters from the notorious ADF group over the past two days in eastern DR Congo, officials said Sunday, IgbereTV reports. “We...
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3 years agoAlec Baldwin Says ‘Heart Is Broken’ After Fatally Shooting Cinematographer
Hollywood star Alec Baldwin said his “heart is broken” Friday after he fatally shot a cinematographer with a prop gun on the set of a We...
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3 years agoEswatini Bans Protests As Nurses Refuse To Treat Police
A ban on protests silenced Eswatini’s pro-democracy movement Friday, as regional mediators sought to resolve the deadly unrest that enflamed the kingdom this we...
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