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21-story building collapses in Lagos, Nigeria
People are feared to be trapped in the ruins of a 21-story building that collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday.
The building, located in the city’s affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, is a construction site for luxury apartments. It is unclear…
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Syrians face deportation from Turkey over banana
Laughing and joking on camera, Syrians have been taking part in the latest craze to sweep social media in Turkey.
In playful TikTok videos, they've been eating bananas and challenging their friends to do so.
The videos seem harmless…
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Three women, one cheating ex and an adventure
A group of women have become social media stars after discovering they were dating the same man.
When the trio found they shared a boyfriend, they soon dumped him and discovered he was not the only thing they had in common, as they also…
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Facebook’s new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers
Facebook's announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead".
To be precise, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word.
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Tonga records first coronavirus case
Tongans have been rushing to vaccinate themselves against coronavirus after the Pacific island nation confirmed its first case on Friday.
The infection was detected in a fully vaccinated person who had arrived on a repatriation flight…
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‘I feel free to be gay’ – Afghanistan Refugee
I feel like "a human being for the first time" in my life, a gay Afghan man has said after arriving in the UK with 28 others from the LGBT community.
The man - who the BBC is not naming for safety reasons - fled Afghanistan, fearing for…
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India Facebook full of dead bodies
"I've seen more images of dead people in the past three weeks than I've seen in my entire life," a Facebook researcher in India wrote in 2019 after following recommendations by the social network's algorithms for three weeks.
The…
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The woman who gave up Royal status to marry
In 2017, when Mako, then a Japanese princess, announced her engagement to a former classmate, Kei Komuro, she said he had won over her heart with "his bright smiles like the sun".
The two had met five years earlier when they were both…
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Uganda: One killed in bomb attack at Kampala bar
One person has been killed and three others injured in a bomb attack in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
The explosion happened at a bar on Saturday night, killing a 20-year-old waitress and scattering panicked revellers on to the street…
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Coup fears as military force arrests Sudanese PM, ministers
The officials told the AP the detained included Industry Minister Ibrahim al-Sheikh, Information Minister Hamza Baloul, Mohammed al-Fiky Suliman, member of the ruling Sovereign Council, and Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a media adviser to the…
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