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A 14-year-old schoolgirl in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura, has died after being brutally caned by a teacher, her father has told the BBC. Chadia Nishimwe was caned on the neck and legs, and the beating also caused her to bleed from the…
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Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages “should be earned, not bought”. “While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power…
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A Fort Worth police officer who shot dead a black woman in her bedroom on Saturday has been held and charged with murder. Police in Forth Worth, Texas, wrote on Twitter that Aaron Dean was being held in the Tarrant County jail. On Monday…
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The second phase of Kenya's new railway line, running from the capital Nairobi to Naivasha town, will be opened today for passenger services only. Cargo services will have to wait for the construction of a dry port, which could take…
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A rare and unfortunate sequence of events allowed a deadly type of malaria in gorillas to "jump" species and attack humans, according to scientists. Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria every year and Plasmodium falciparum -…
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Two New Zealand police officers who managed to arrest a man accused of killing 51 people at two mosques earlier this year have been cited for their role in preventing more deaths. The officers were awarded the 2019 New Zealand Police…
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Four days after a BBC Africa Eye documentary was broadcast revealing cases of sexual harassment at two top West African Universities, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said more needs to be done to prevent abuse in educational…
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A rare zebra foal has been sighted in Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve, weeks after a polka dotted zebra was spotted in the same park. The golden-coloured baby zebra was spotted on Wednesday by John Manie Kipas, a tour guide in the reserve…
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An aspiring footballer who was stabbed to death in east London has been named as 15-year-old Baptista Adjei. The young ‘popular’ boy was fatally knifed in his school uniform outside McDonald’s, in Stratford Broadway, at 3.20pm on…
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The acting head of US Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, has resigned after six months in the post. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said Mr McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family. He said his replacement would be named…
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