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The Ghana Red Cross Society has been lauded for its contribution to improve maternal and child health care services in the country through the Mother, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) project. Mr Rexford King James Adjei, Health Promotion…
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More than 200 people were injured in Malaysia on Monday when two trains collided in the capital Kuala Lumpur, the state-run Bernama news agency reported. The accident occurred at 8:45 p.m. local time when one of the trains, which was…
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Frederick Waldhausen Gordon is just 10 years old and has already defeated a chess grandmaster. But the talented young Scottish player did not share his excitement with his school friends because he thought it would be boasting. Freddy…
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The start of the corruption trial of South Africa's scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma, which was slated to start on Monday, has been postponed to May 26, a judge said. Zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering…
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Armed men have attacked a Catholic Church in Nigeria’s northern state of Katsina, killing one priest and taking another hostage. The two clerics were abducted from St Vincent Catholic Church in Malumfashi in the early hours of Friday…
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A military Beachcraft 350 aircraft has crashed at the Kaduna International Airport on Friday, claiming all eight souls onboard including the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru. The PUNCH learnt that the…
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Thousands of people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a large volcano erupted. Fountains of high lava burst from Mount Nyiragongo into the night sky forming a thick red cloud over the town of Goma, which has…
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Cradling her newborn baby Hasan on the floor of a classroom in Gaza City, her five other children flitting in and out, Suheir al-Arbeed lists the basic necessities they are lacking. “We need food, clothes, duvets, mattresses and milk,”…
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A trial date has been set for a nurse accused of the murder of eight babies on a hospital neonatal unit. Lucy Letby is due to stand trial on 4 July 2022 at Manchester Crown Court. Ms Letby, 31, of Arran Avenue in Hereford, is alleged…
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Corruption investigators in Nigeria have declared that the president’s son-in-law Gimba Yau Kumo is “wanted” in connection with an alleged $65m housing fraud. The former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria is being…
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