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Florida has ordered a machine recount of votes for state governor and senator following Tuesday's closely fought mid-term elections, officials say. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said that as unofficial results in both races had…
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More than 200 people have now died in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to health officials. About half the victims were from Beni, a city of 800,000 in the North Kivu region, the national health…
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Hundreds of buffaloes have drowned in a river on the border between Botswana and Namibia. Early investigations suggest the herd was being chased by lions and ran into the river, says Botswana authorities. A local lodge owner told the…
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At least 12 people have been killed, including a police officer, at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The shooting began at 23:20 local time on Wednesday about 40 miles (65km) north-west of Los Angeles, police say. At least 200…
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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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