WORLD

A senator for the state of Arkansas has described slavery as a "necessary evil" on which the American nation was built. In a local newspaper interview, Republican Tom Cotton said he rejected the idea that the US was a systemically racist…
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About 4 million people have been displaced in South Asia due to flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains. At least 189 people have died and dozens are missing in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, officials said. In the northeastern Indian…
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A top Kenyan politician has apologised for flouting a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was over the weekend found drinking at a pub in the capital, Nairobi, hours past the…
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More than 600,000 people have died with the coronavirus around the world. Nearly a quarter of them were in the US. The world has seen the largest single-day increase in cases, the WHO says. The number of new cases of coronavirus rose…
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A Nigerian government official answering questions on mismanagement of funds collapsed on live TV while facing lawmakers. Daniel Pondei, who is the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), was being…
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US President Donald Trump has vowed not to order Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of coronavirus. His comments came after the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, urged state and local leaders to be “as…
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India added a record number of COVID-19 cases nearly 35,000 in the last 24 hours, breaching the one million mark. It has the world’s third-largest caseload, after the US and Brazil the only three countries so far to record more than a…
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Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The official accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West also requested donations in…
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Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been…
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An unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Kazakhstan is likely to be the novel coronavirus, a World Health Organization (WHO) top official said late on Friday. The executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, Michael Ryan, said…
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