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A fire swept through the main building of Cameroon’s parliament in Yaounde overnight, causing substantial damage, local television reported on Friday. Public broadcaster CRTV said witnesses reported that the blaze was raging on the third…
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Facebook has blocked the page set up to raise funds for thousands of Iranians in the wake of Sunday’s devastating earthquake that hit the western part of the country last Sunday, Al Jazeera reports. After Tohid Najafi, a…
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Notorious Sicilian Mafia "boss of all bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina has died from cancer in jail, aged 87. Riina was serving 26 life sentences and is believed to have ordered more than 150 murders. The head of the feared Cosa Nostra…
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Robert Mugabe has attended a university graduation ceremony on the outskirts of Harare in his first public appearance since a takeover by the Zimbabwean military on Wednesday. Clad in academic gown and hat, the 93-year-old walked slowly…
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Robert Mugabe, Africa’s oldest president and one of the world’s longest-serving leaders,has said that he will only give up power “when God says ‘Come.’” But it looks as though a military intervention, rather than a divine one, may be…
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No-one is exactly celebrating here - too much remains unknown. But shops and businesses are working and Zimbabwe is quietly adapting to the stunning fact that President Robert Mugabe is still under house arrest, and that no-one is coming to…
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Four suicide bombers detonated in Nigeria's Borno state capital and killed 14 people while wounding another 29, police said Wednesday, in one of the largest such attacks in the city in years The deafening blasts could be heard in the…
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Flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece. The industrial towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara, west of the capital Athens, were the most affected. Many of…
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The African Union has spoken on the political situation in Zimbabwe where the army have seized key state institutions including the state broadcaster. President of the political bloc and Guinean president Alpha Conde in an interview with…
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Zimbabweans are waiting to see what steps the military will take next after seizing control of the country. President Robert Mugabe is said to be under house arrest but the whereabouts of his wife Grace, who was bidding to succeed him as…
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