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For years, Rebecca Roberts and her partner Rhys Weaver struggled with infertility. Then, last year, with the help of fertility medications, Roberts found out she was pregnant — and, while pregnant, got pregnant again. "This is not…
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At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Josephine Muchilwa was working as a cook, but like many others in Kenya and around the world, she lost her job. Over the past year, BBC World Service Business Daily presenter Ed Butler has been…
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is traveling to London on Tuesday for what his office says is a “routine medical check-up”. He’s expected to return home in the second week of April, according to a statement from the presidential…
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is warning about an alarming increase in the number of attacks by an armed group on civilians in north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since January, attacks…
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A huge container ship that has been stuck across the Suez Canal for almost a week has reportedly been freed. The 400m-long (1,300ft) Ever Given has been straightened and released from the shoreline, officials said. Video appeared to…
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Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Affectionately called Granny Sarah by the former president, Mrs Obama defended her grandson during his 2008 presidential campaign, when he…
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Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan has suspended the director-general of the country's ports authority after an audit report showed embezzlement of government funds at the state corporation. This is her first key decision since…
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As a result of this pollution, a growing number of babies are being born with small penises, Dr Swan writes Penises are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book…
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Two suspected suicide bombers attacked a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, officials said. The congregation was concluding their mass inside…
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Libyan authorities have announced increased security measures in the second-largest city, Benghazi, and the arrest of two suspects in connection with the killing of a militia leader wanted by the International Criminal Court. Mahmoud…
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