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Sierra Leone’s opposition candidate, Julius Maada Bio, has rushed to take his presidential oath in a hotel after winning the run-off election. Mr Maada Bio is a former military ruler who briefly ruled the country in 1996. He narrowly…
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Saudi Arabia's first cinema in more than 35 years will open on 18 April, showing the action movie Black Panther. It is part of a deal done with the world's biggest cinema chain, AMC, to open up to 40 cinemas in some 15 Saudi cities over…
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Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook. "When you're building something like Facebook which is unprecedented in the world," he said on…
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Sophia, the most advanced robot and first artificially intelligent (AI) robot to be granted a citizenship, is coming to Africa. The Saudi Arabian citizen and first Android citizen in history will attend Egypt’s Creative Industry Summit…
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An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood superstar Salman Khan to five years in jail for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The court in Jodhpur also fined him 10,000 rupees ($154; £109) for the crime. He will now be taken to jail.…
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A woman shot and wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in Northern California before killing herself, police say. Police have named the suspect as Nasim Aghdam, 39, and say they are still investigating a motive. They say there…
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Saudi Arabia's crown prince affirmed Israel's right to exist and criticized former President Obama's Iran policy in an interview published Monday, pointedly bucking other leaders in the Arab world and signaling support for President Trump's…
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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for Beijing's political support and pledged to strengthen ties with China on his first visit since his dramatic rise to power last year. Mnangagwa and Xi…
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Women's league members from South Africa's ruling party sang outside Madikizela-Mandela's house in the Soweto area of Johannesburg on Tuesday. Julius Malema, an opposition leader, later spoke to a crowd of supporters outside the home,…
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Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill. Friends said the girl, named locally as Tanesha, was shot from a car "for no reason at all" in Tottenham on Monday night.…
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