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Students kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon's restive North-West region have been reunited with their parents amid joyful scenes. The 78 boys and girls and three others were seized early on Monday in the region's capital,…
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Ten men have been arrested for allegedly conducting a same-sex marriage ceremony on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The arrests were made on Saturday night at a beach resort, a senior police officer told the BBC. In recent years there…
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At least 17 migrants died in the space of 24 hours while trying to cross the sea from North Africa to Spain, and rescuers picked up more than 100 others, the Spanish coast guard said on Monday. Two rafts were found in the Western…
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Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus walked across the Sea of Galilee, according to the Bible. Today, that doesn’t require a miracle. Long periods of drought and over-pumping have brought the lake low. A reedy island has materialized at its…
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Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari on how he spends Nigeria’s money and implored him to stop being a Father Christmas, when it is obvious his people are…
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Americans have begun voting in nationwide elections that are being seen as a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency. Polling stations opened on the East Coast amid a battle by both Republicans and Democrats to take control of the two…
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An army search operation is under way in Cameroon to rescue dozens of people kidnapped from a boarding school. At least 79 students and three others were seized on Monday in Bamenda, the capital of the North-West region, a government…
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More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of bodies have been found in areas of Iraq that were once controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group, a UN investigation has found. The graves were found in the north and western governorates…
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A young couple from Texas were killed when a helicopter carrying them away from their own wedding crashed late on Saturday night, according to officials. Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman Byler were both students at Sam Houston State…
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Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a school in the west of Cameroon. At least 78 students and three others, including the school principal, were abducted on Monday morning in Bamenda, the capital of the…
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