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Nigerian police say they have successfully rescued five sisters who were held hostage after being kidnapped in the country's capital. The girls were freed in a joint police-army operation in a forest in northern Nigeria on Saturday…
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The search for a man who fell into a crack in the ground that opened up after a volcano erupted in Iceland last month has been called off. Ludvik Petursson, 50, was working to fill crevasses formed by earthquakes and volcanic activity in…
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A man has been arrested after suspected counterfeit drugs worth an estimated £450,000 were seized in Belfast. It follows searches of four properties, carried out by the PSNI and UK Border Force, in the north and east of the city on…
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A suspected Kenyan cult leader is to be charged with murder and terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 people found in mass graves, prosecutors say. Paul Mackenzie was arrested in April after the discovery of hundreds of bodies, some…
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Tens of thousands of people turned out to watch King Frederik X succeed his mother as the monarch of Denmark, in a historic moment for the nation. Blinking back tears, King Frederik told a cheering crowd outside Christiansborg Castle…
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One hundred days ago, the previously unthinkable happened in Israel. A state, born out of adversity and war only 75 years ago, woke up to what some have since described as a threat to its very existence. On Saturday night, in Tel Aviv,…
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What is it like to catch Covid now? It is a question I have been pondering since a friend was surprised by how roughed up they were by it. Their third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time they caught it. "I…
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Militant Islamists linked to al-Qaeda have freed a South African paramedic taken hostage in Libya more than six years ago, a charity has said. Gift of the Givers said it had facilitated the "unconditional" release of Gerco van Deventer.…
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A Japanese court has found three ex-soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague. The landmark verdict comes after Rina Gonoi, 24, caused a public outcry and drew international attention when she put her story on YouTube in…
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France's education minister has visited a school where some pupils refused to look at a painting of nude women in class, sparking a teacher walkout. The pupils also accused their teacher of making racist and Islamophobic remarks, which…
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