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Anthony Fauci, the face of the US government's response to the Covid pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalised with West Nile virus. The immunologist and former chief medical adviser to the president was hospitalised with…
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At least 14 people have died after a bus carrying passengers from India fell into a river in Nepal, officials have said. There were around 40 people on the bus, which was travelling to Nepal's capital Kathmandu from Pokhara, according to…
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A British warship has seized cocaine with a street value of more than £40m from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, the Royal Navy has said. HMS Trent confiscated half a tonne, or 506kg, of the Class A narcotic after it intercepted a…
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Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought. Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc…
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Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates. Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were…
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The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an "underground tunnel route" inside the Gaza Strip, Israel's military has said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab,…
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Mass protests are taking place in India after a female doctor was found mutilated, sexually assaulted and murdered. Medics want protection and a better working environment - but many expect little to change. "We want justice, we want…
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has stated that he is considering implementing a tax on church donations to address the issue of evangelical clerics engaging in extortion and exploitation. In his first speech following his recent…
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The stepfather of a boy left brain-damaged after an accident dreams of walking him to the pub on his 18th birthday - having survived coming off life support. Jack Dolan, 15, was knocked unconscious after performing a flip into the water…
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Sudan is at a “breaking point,” a United Nations agency said Monday, as a growing number of people need food, water, shelter and medical care in a country devastated by intensifying war. Over eight million people have been displaced…
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