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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday thata cruise boat which capsized on Lake Victoria a day earlier, killing at least 29 people, was carrying more than twice its capacity of 50. More than 200 people died in September when…
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Robert Mugabe, the 94-year-old former president of Zimbabwe, is no longer able to walk because of ill health and age. The announcement was made by his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who said on Saturday that the former leader…
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“We are in a state of chaos. In the city in which I live, I hear and see examples of chaos almost every day. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence…” Two years ago, 11-year-old Milwaukee schoolgirl Sandra Parks wrote these…
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One teenager is dead and two others have been injured following a shooting at an Alabama mall open late ahead of Black Friday shopping.The shooting happened around 9.30 pm on Thursday at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, a town 10 miles…
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A South Korean pastor has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping eight female followers of his mega-church. Lee Jae-rock, 75, has about 130,000 followers at the Manmin Central Church in Seoul. He denied all the charges. His…
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Late last year, 31-year-old taxi driver Hammed Olojo tried to jump into Lagos Lagoon. He was later charged with attempted suicide, and he was far from alone: An analysis from Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper found that 79 people in the…
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Italy said on Thursday it would resist pressure from Brussels to revise its big-spending budget, effectively daring EU authorities to punish it with fines ahead of May’s European parliamentary elections. Leaders of Rome’s populist…
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President Donald Trump's embrace of Saudi Arabia has exposed a foreign policy rift in the Republican Party, as some of his GOP colleagues warn that not punishing the kingdom for its role in killing a U.S.-based columnist will have dangerous…
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Attacks blamed on Islamic State West Africa have killed around 100 soldiers in northeast Nigeria since Sunday, five security sources said on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Islamist militants had already killed hundreds of…
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A South African teenager is in police custody accused of stabbing to death a young boy in a school toilet, where he had hidden in wait for him overnight. The grade one pupil, thought to be seven-years-old, was stabbed multiple times, the…
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