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A colonial-era unexploded mortar bomb was discovered in a village in central Kenya that some residents mistook for an overgrown local root vegetable. Kenyan police said concerned villagers milled around the object, some arguing “that it…
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A female prison guard who went on the run with a murder suspect from an Alabama jail has died after shooting herself as the pair were caught, police say. Vicky White, 58, died in hospital after she and Casey White (no relation), 38, were…
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Dozens of people were killed after armed men raided a gold mine in Djugu in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province on Sunday. The AFP news agency quotes a local official as saying that 29 bodies had been retrieved from…
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"We thought those were our last minutes. It was extremely scary but we were lucky." Elena is recalling the moment Russian troops started shelling, after she and a group of escapees passed through one of their checkpoints. After two…
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At least 22 people have died and more than 60 have been hospitalized after a massive explosion rocked one of Cuba’s most exclusive five-star hotels. It is believed a gas tanker which was parked outside the Saratoga Hotel in Old Havana…
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A German woman has been found guilty of sexual assault after poking holes in her partner’s condoms in an attempt to get pregnant, according to reports. The woman, 39, was in a “friends with benefits” relationship with the man when she…
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Eight people have died after drinking tainted homemade alcohol in the Iranian city of Bandar Abbas, local media say. Another 51 people were being treated in hospitals for alcohol poisoning, local health official Dr Fatemeh Nowruzian told…
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Chinese district authorities have fired four officials after an elderly patient from a Shanghai care home was believed to be dead and loaded into a hearse. On Sunday, online videos emerged showing two people who appear to be mortuary…
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Hearing how her best friend's children were drinking rainwater from puddles to survive the war in Ukraine is why Nataliia Roberts wants her in the UK. Yuliia and her three daughters used to run out of their basement shelter in the…
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A man has been arrested over the beating to death of an endangered brown bear that wandered into a village in north-western Iran on Sunday. Residents of Kenazaq, in Ardabil province, chased and hit the animal before using a tractor to…
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