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Colombia’s most wanted drug lord nabbed
Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker and the leader of the country’s largest criminal gang has been captured.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, air force and police on…
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Iranian Governor slapped during public speech
An event introducing a newly appointed Iranian governor was dramatically interrupted Saturday after a man walked on stage and slapped him in the face.
Zeinolabedin Khorram, the new governor of East Azerbaijan province, was on stage…
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Black experts say UK science is blighted by racism
Dr Jazmin Scarlett, a student in volcanology, had been excited to embark on a career in academic research. She believed she was well placed to get job offers given she has a distinction in her masters and is a recipient of the prestigious…
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Liberia President rewards teen who returned $50,000
Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned $50,000 (£36,000) to a businesswoman who had lost the cash in the north-eastern Nimba region.
President Weah met Emmanuel Tolue at a…
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Sudan: Protesters demand military coup
Opponents of Sudan’s transition to democracy took to the streets of Khartoum on Saturday to call on the army to take control of the country.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside the presidential palace as the country’s…
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US Missionaries Kidnapped In Haiti
A group of US missionaries and their family members, including children, are reported to have been kidnapped by an armed gang near Haiti's Port-au-Prince.
At least 15 people were taken off a bus after visiting an orphanage, Haitian…
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How Aliyah escaped a hidden world of gangs and exploitation
At first glance, Aliyah looks like any other 24-year-old - she loves fashion, posts selfies on Instagram and appears happy. But her smile conceals a background of abuse and exploitation - a pattern that experts warn is all too common among…
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The flood that drowned American dreams
Like many who come to America, Leng Hongsheng was looking for freedom.
He arrived in the 1990s, having lived through the tumult of a world war, a cultural revolution and the emergence of a nation into modernity.
He was thought to have…
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US, Taliban hold first talks since Afghanistan withdrawal
Senior Taliban officials and United States representatives have discussed “opening a new page” in their countries’ relationship as they kicked off talks in Qatar, according to Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister.
The in-person meetings…
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Deadly attack hits mosque
A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has killed at least 50 people, officials say, in the deadliest assault since US forces left.
Bodies were seen scattered inside the Said Abad mosque, used by the minority Shia…
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