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Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. The US space agency said the object's sharp angles and flat surface suggested it had recently broken away from an ice shelf. The…
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A televised rape trial in South Africa has prompted a furious public backlash after a witness - who says she was raped by her pastor from the age of 14 - was subjected to a lengthy and, at times, aggressively intimate cross-examination by…
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The only free ambulance service in Somalia's capital is under threat of closure and is having to use fewer vehicles, its founder has told the BBC. Aamin has a fleet of 16 ambulances but can now only afford to operate 10 on a regular basis…
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Bulgarian authorities raided a print shop on Monday that was making counterfeit cash, and seized fake euro and dollar bills worth more than $14.3 million, the interior ministry said on Monday. Special forces for combating organized crime…
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Saudi Arabia has blamed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on a "rogue operation", giving a new account of an act that sparked a global outcry. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News "the murder" had been a "tremendous…
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Missing Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has resurfaced in Israel more than a year after soldiers stormed his home. "I'm in Israel," Mr Kanu said on Sunday in a broadcast on his outlawed pirate radio station - Radio Biafra. A…
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If you follow the yellow-brick road in Ghana, it does not take you to the Land of Oz's Emerald City, but rather to La - a district in the capital Accra. This is where artist Serge Attukwei Clottey periodically carpets the dusty streets…
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The leader of a daring World War Two raid to thwart Nazi Germany’s nuclear ambitions has died aged 99, Norwegian government officials said on Sunday. Joachim Roenneberg, serving behind enemy lines in his native Norway during the German…
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The Trump administration in the United States is planning to "revise" the definition of employment and specialty occupations under the H-1B visas by January 2019. This is being considered as a move that stands to adversely impact Indian…
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Thousands of people travelling across Central America en masse to the US are stuck on Mexico's southern border after a failed attempt to enter the country. Some of them broke through Guatemalan border fences but then clashed with Mexican…
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