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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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South Africa has introduced new restrictions, including another ban on alcohol sales, to help contain the spread of coronavirus. A night-time curfew has been imposed, and the wearing of masks outdoors is now compulsory. President…
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Two Malagasy lawmakers, one member of the senate and one deputy, have died after contracting coronavirus, President Andry Rajoelina is reported to have announced on Sunday. Mr Rajoelina also said 11 other deputies and 14 senators had…
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Malawi's new President Lazarus Chakwera has been criticised for including a husband and wife duo and siblings in his cabinet. The president's former running mate in the 2019 elections, Sidik Mia, has been appointed minister for transport…
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Egypt’s cabinet has approved amendments to the country’s criminal procedure law that will guarantee anonymity for victims of sexual abuse. The identities of victims can only be revealed to the court and to defendants upon request,…
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Nigeria’s confirmed coronavirus cases passed 30,000 on Wednesday, the country’s disease control centre said, as the virus spreads in Africa’s most populous country amid an easing of restrictions put in place to curb the disease. The…
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Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the ruling party’s candidate for the October presidential election, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, has died just days after returning from two months of medical treatment in France. The 61-year-old Gon Coulibaly,…
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