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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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The Zambian government has issued a seven day ultimatum to Cuban ambassador Nelson Pages Vilas to leave the country. Mr Vilas angered the government after attending the launch of opposition Socialist Party, headed by Fred M’membe, a…
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Former President John Dramani Mahama has eulogised the late anti-apartheid campaigner and former First Lady of South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died aged 81 on Monday after a long illness. Family…
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Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second four-year term, after winning 97% of the vote last week, official results show. The amount is the same as he won in the last election in 2014. But turnout, at 41%,…
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