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The military government in Niger says it has foiled an attempt by the deposed former President, Mohamed Bazoum, to escape from custody. The former president attempted to flee in the night with his family, cooks and security, a military…
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"There is no lonelier place in this universe than around the bed of a wounded child who has no more family to look after them," British doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who is working in Gaza City, posted online. Normally a plastic and…
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Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull. They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor who said it was needed for rituals that would make them rich. The men…
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The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has released a blow- by-blow account of how busted fake advocate Brian Mwenda Njagi was able to criminally access the LSK portal, identify an account with a name corresponding to his, tamper with the details,…
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France will deploy 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a terror attack killed a school teacher and wounded three others, the president's office has said, while the Louvre was evacuated after a threat. The museum in Paris …
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A man trying to become the youngest person to cross the Pacific Ocean in a handmade boat had to be rescued by a cruise ship after it capsized. Tom Robinson, 24, from Brisbane, Australia, began his 8,000-mile journey in his boat 'Maiwar'…
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A mummified man is going to receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Pennsylvania for 128 years. Known as Stoneman Willie, the man died in a local jail in 1895, where he suffered from kidney failure after being…
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Families have spoken of the sheer panic of learning their loved ones may have been taken hostage by Hamas, after the militant group attacked Israel. The Israeli military suggests dozens of people, including foreign nationals, have been…
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Hundreds of people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake hit western Afghanistan, near the Iranian border. The Taliban government initially said the death toll could be more than 2,000, but later clarified that this number included…
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Israel formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday, setting the stage for a major military operation in Gaza as fighting rages on Israeli soil following Saturday’s surprise assault by the Islamist militant group in which hundreds of Israelis…
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