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Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane has been summoned to appear in court next week to answer homicide charges over a fatal car crash in 2014. State prosecutors initially decided not to charge Duduzane after his…
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Election workers in Mali extended a strike on Tuesday, a union representative said, casting further doubt on an election this month meant to chart a way out of six years of political unrest and jihadist violence. The government’s ability…
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Dozens of migrants are missing after a rubber boat they were on sank off the coast of Libya, local officials say. One official is quoted as saying 63 migrants have disappeared after Sunday's incident east of Tripoli, while 41 people have…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reached a deal on immigration to end a row that threatened to break up her four-month-old coalition government. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has now dropped his threat to resign after hours of talks.…
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Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been arrested by anti-corruption authorities and is due to be charged on Wednesday. Mr Najib, who has long been plagued by allegations of corruption, has been accused of pocketing $700m…
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Twelve boys and their football coach trapped in a Thai cave are alive, but will need to learn to dive or wait months for flooding to recede before they can get out, the army says. The group had been missing for nine days before they were…
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Gambia's government plans to auction ex-President Yahya Jammeh's luxury planes and cars online, the AFP news agency reports. Regional countries intervened to force Mr Jammeh into exile after he lost elections in December 2016 but refused…
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US President Donald Trump has bowed to public pressure and signed an executive order promising to "keep families together" in migrant detentions. Mr Trump reversed his own policy amid international fury over the separation of…
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A petrol tanker which caught fire in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, has killed more people, officials say. More than 50 vehicles, including five buses, were set ablaze after the truck lost control and spilled its contents on a busy…
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EU leaders have differed sharply over how a new deal on curbing irregular migration will work. The agreement foresees the creation of secure centres to receive migrants. France's president said his country would not set any up as it was…
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