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At least 27 people have died in a series of wildfires in Portugal, the country's civil protection service says. More than 50 people have been injured. A spokeswoman for the agency told reporters that firefighters were still tackling…
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Somali health workers are struggling to identify and treat the victims of the country's deadliest attack, as more than 100 people are feared missing. A truck bomb blast on Saturday in the capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 276 people…
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Part of a tree fell on her car in West Waterford in the Republic of Ireland, as the country began to be battered by hurricane-force gusts.About 120,000 homes are without power in the Irish Republic, where the government has deployed the…
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Moored ships were blown away as a "supercell thunderstorm" swept through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least 11 people. The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and two patients killed when a wall collapsed…
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One of Liberia's leading political parties has called for a halt in announcing results of Tuesday's presidential election. In a statement, the Liberal Party said it was deeply troubled by the discovery of irregularities and fraud, and…
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About 20 people have so been found guilty in Nigeria for involvement with the Islamist militant Boko Haram group at closed-door trials taking place at a military facility in Kainji in north-central Niger state, a source has told the BBC.…
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Kenya has banned protests in three major city centres following weeks of demonstrations by opposition supporters. Fred Matiangi, acting internal security minister, said rallies are banned in the central business districts of the capital,…
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President Donald Trump finds himself under immense pressure as he considers de-certifying the international nuclear deal with Iran, a move that would ignore warnings from inside and outside his administration that to do so would risk…
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Another 40 are missing, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes, as a tropical depression sweeps across northern and central Vietnam. Among the missing is a local journalist reporting on the floods, who was swept away after a…
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An election to replace Congolese President Joseph Kabila cannot take place before April 2019, the electoral commission said, a delay that the opposition said would cause an impatient population to “take matters into its own hands”. The…
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