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The number of migrants allegedly being forced to cross the Sahara Desert on foot by Algeria has dropped significantly, a UN agency says. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has dealt with about 10,000 people abandoned near…
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Donald Trump told Theresa May she should sue the EU rather than negotiate over Brexit, she has told the BBC. The US president said on Friday at a joint press conference he had given her a suggestion - but she had found it too "brutal".…
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US President Trump has said he has "low expectations" for his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday. But he told CBS News that "nothing bad" and "maybe some good" would come out of the encounter. He also said he…
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The president of Tanzania has called for prisoners to be made to work long hours, and to be punished if they are lazy. John Magufuli was speaking at the inauguration of a new prisons chief. Rights groups have accused him of growing…
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Zimbabwe has suspended its top prosecutor, Ray Goba, for failing to prosecute high-profile corruption cases among other allegations, state media said on Friday. Goba, Zimbabwe’s prosecutor general, is also accused of traveling abroad…
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President Donald Trump said on Friday he had a very strong relationship with British Prime Minister Theresa May, having earlier scorned her Brexit strategy which he said had probably killed off hope for a future U.S.-British trade deal.…
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A convoy transporting Cameroonian Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo was ambushed in the country's restive anglophone region, leaving several attackers dead, state radio said Friday. Four soldiers and a reporter were also injured in…
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Twelve people have been injured after an explosion at a chemical factory near Cairo's airport, Egypt's state news agency MENA says. They have been hospitalised, but the severity of their injuries is not yet known. An army spokesman said…
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Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has given ammunition to critics who call him "Baba Go-slow" after admitting that he failed to sign a continental free-trade agreement because he is a "slow reader". Mr Buhari said he intends to sign…
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Kenyans have reacted furiously to news that 20 MPs have travelled to watch the World Cup at the taxpayers' expense. They are watching four games, including the final, in a two-week trip to Russia estimated to be costing hundreds of…
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