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Saudi women are to be allowed to drive from midnight local time (21:00 GMT) after a ban comes to an end. The change was announced last September and Saudi Arabia issued the first licences to women earlier this month. It was the only…
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Ethiopia’s new PM Abiy Ahmed says several people have been killed in an explosion that hit a rally he was speaking at earlier on Saturday. He described it as an “unsuccessful attempt by forces who do not want to see Ethiopia united”.…
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The US State Department has imposed visa bans on a number of Congolese officials accused of corruption or electoral malpractice. It declined to name those targeted, but said the move was intended to send a strong signal that Washington…
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Tanzanian MP Joseph Mbilinyi says he will sue the government for banning his rap song about the state of prisons. Basata, the Kiswahili acronym for the country's arts council, banned the song for using words that "incite public violence".…
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Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN's human rights body says. In a report, it cites "shocking" accounts of young men being killed during operations, often in…
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An Ethiopian rebel group has suspended its armed resistance against the government. Ginbot 7 said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reforms had given it hope that "genuine democracy" may be "a real possibility". Earlier, the government said…
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A female reporter groped live on air at the World Cup has spoken out about harassment by sports fans. Colombian correspondent Julieth Gonzalez Theran was working for DW Espanol in Moscow when a man grabbed her breast and kissed her cheek.…
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Indonesian police have detained the captain of a ferry that sank in Lake Toba in Sumatra leaving at least three people dead and more than 190 missing. The vessel went down on Monday in what is feared to be one of Indonesia's deadliest ship…
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Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of US rapper XXXTentacion. The suspect, named as Dedrick D Williams, 22, is facing a charge of first-degree murder. The 20-year-old rapper, real name Jahseh Onfroy, was shot as…
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A woman with a rare blood cancer is being denied a life-saving transplant from her brother because he doesn't earn enough, a charity has said. Shirley Kordie, 33, has hypoplastic MDS and will leave her son, Blessing, four, without a mother…
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