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Guinea’s junta announced Monday that deposed president Alpha Conde was sent to his wife’s home in the capital, revealing the location of the ousted leader after holding him incommunicado for months. Conde, 83, led the country for nearly…
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Gambia’s truth commission on Thursday recommended the government prosecute a list of officials responsible for crimes committed under former dictator Yahya Jammeh, with victims adamant the ex-leader himself is included. Rights groups…
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As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed by criminal gangs to retrieve the drugs from among freight arriving from Latin America.…
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In July 2020, police in India's north-eastern state of Assam received a complaint about a suspicious Facebook page. A non-profit organisation had passed on information that the page had pictures and videos of children, and that it may be…
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Wisconsin officials will seek to charge a driver who ploughed into a Christmas parade on Sunday with five counts of intentional homicide. Police said Darrell Edward Brooks Jr, 39, killed five people, aged between 52 and 81, and injured…
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As Western Europe's vaccination rollout gained strength in the early part of 2021, many of the region's leaders touted the shots as their immediate route out of the pandemic. Press conferences took on an almost celebratory tone as…
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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has agreed to end a 50-day hunger strike in prison that had raised political tensions in the former Soviet republic and drawn expressions of concern from the United States. Saakashvili agreed…
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A deadly storm described by officials as a once-in-a-century weather event has severed road and rail links around Vancouver, Canada. Two motorways connecting the West Coast city were closed after being damaged by severe flooding.…
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Two explosions have hit the centre of the Ugandan capital Kampala. One blast took place near parliament, with the other going off close to the city’s police headquarters. There are fears people may have been killed or injured in the…
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The climate deal struck in Glasgow plans to reduce the world's reliance on coal and promises more money to help poorer countries cope with the impacts of a warming planet. Campaigners on the frontline of climate change have been speaking…
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