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Zimbabwe's army chief has warned those responsible for "purging" the country's ruling Zanu-PF party to stop, or the military will step in. The rare intervention comes just a week after President Robert Mugabe sacked his deputy Emmerson…
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Thousands of homeless Iranians huddled against the cold late on Monday, a day after more than 450 people were killed in Iran's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade. Rescue teams kept up search operations for dozens trapped beneath…
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A South African police officer is recovering in hospital after being attacked by members of a church. The incident happened when traffic officers tried to tow away a car belonging to a member of the Johannesburg church. A video…
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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has called on the Supreme Court to throw out petitions challenging his election on October 26. Kenyatta said in a statement on Sunday that the over ten petitioners’ claims were unsubstantiated and a…
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A train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 33 people, UN radio station Okapi reports. It happened in Buyofwe in the province Lualaba, in the south of the country. Radio Okapi said that the train caught fire after…
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Iranians spent the night digging through rubble in a frantic search for survivors after a powerful earthquake struck near the Iraqi border on Sunday evening, killing more than 300 people and injuring thousands of others, officials said.…
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Thousands of Somaliland voters came out early Monday morning to vote in the self-declared independent state’s third presidential election since it declared unilateral independence from Somalia in 1991. Polls opened at 0400 GMT and…
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A flurry of party endorsements and parades in honour of Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first lady, could mark the stirring of a national political dynasty for the Mugabes, as structures within the ruling Zanu PF endorse Grace as a potential…
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attempted to clear up confusion over whether he accepts Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of meddling in the U.S. election last year. At a news conference in Vietnam, Trump distanced himself…
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Liberia’s outgoing president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been honoured in Nigeria’s southeast state of Imo with a statue, chieftaincy title, the state’s highest award and a road named after her. Sirleaf honoured the invitation of Governor…
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