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Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court. The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu. According to…
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Migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean now face an even deadlier journey then they have in the past, the UN refugee agency has warned. In a report, the agency says that while the number of people arriving in Europe has…
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A German court has sentenced a migrant to eight and a half years for murdering his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend. Abdul D, believed to be Afghan, admitted stabbing Mia V in December in the south-western town of Kandel. Prosecutors believe…
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Some 400 prisoners have escaped from a facility near the Libyan capital Tripoli amid deadly violence between militia groups in the city, police say. "The detainees were able to force open the doors" in order to leave the Ain Zara prison,…
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The only country without a representative at the China-Africa summit in Beijing is Swaziland, recently renamed eSawtini. The kingdom, ruled by Mswati III, is the only country on the continent to reject pressure from China to drop…
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China's President Xi Jinping has defended the country's investments in Africa, saying they are not for "vanity projects" but are aimed at building infrastructure that would promote development on the continent. Mr Xi made the remarks…
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A suicide bomber has attacked a government office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, causing a nearby school to collapse, police say. The car bomb in Howlwadag district killed three soldiers and injured 14 people, including six children,…
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Health authorities in Ashanti Region are reporting increasing rate of mental health cases. Over 3,000 cases were recorded in the first half of this year, up from 2,555 in 2016 and 2,994 in 2017. Officials attribute the trend to…
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More than 2.8 million Ghanaians, representing about 10 per cent of the population, are living in extreme poverty. The vast number are said to be living below the global poverty line of a $1.9 spending a day. According to the report by…
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The Northern Regional Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Halid Abdul-Rauf says the party will work hard to win the 2020 general elections to be able to rescue Ghanaians from the “shackles” of the ruling New…
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