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Top climate scientists have admitted they failed to predict the intensity of the German floods and the North American heat dome. They've correctly warned over decades that a fast-warming climate would bring worse bursts of rain and more…
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Former Namibian footballer Marley Ngarizemo has lost 15 relatives including his father, brother, sister-in-law and an aunt since the third wave of Covid hit the southern African nation last month. Another six currently are in hospital.…
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A Spanish social media influencer and singer with 26 million followers on TikTok has caused an outcry after saying he avoids using a condom by telling sexual partners he is sterile. Many angry women and girls have condemned Naim…
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A Chinese man has been reunited with his son after a 24-year search that saw him travel over 500,000km (310,000 mi) on a motorbike across the country. Guo Gangtang's son had been snatched aged two by human traffickers in front of their…
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Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by armed assailants who stormed his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on 7 July. Here is what we know so far. What happened? A group of gunmen broke into the home of…
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President Salva Kiir has called on South Sudan’s people to work together to try to recover the country’s “lost decade” on the 10th anniversary of its independence. The anniversary is being marked without celebrations due to the Covid-19…
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Former Australian government MP Julia Banks says she was inappropriately touched by a current cabinet minister at Parliament House in 2017. Ms Banks, who made the allegation in a memoir, said the male MP moved his hand up her leg during…
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In 2008, Suldaan Said Ahmed was 15 when his family arrived in Finland having fled the civil war in Somalia. His childhood memory is filled with haunting acts of violence and displacement. “I saw a dead person being driven in a…
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At least 29 people have died and 50 survivors have been taken to hospital after a military plane transporting troops crashed in the southern Philippines, officials said. At least 92 people, most of them army personnel, were on board the…
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The arrest of Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has dealt a serious blow to his group, and could even spell the end of his movement. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a group that wants a breakaway state in…
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