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Mali’s interim government on Monday said “Western-backed” military officers attempted a coup last week, without providing details or evidence. The purported foiled putsch took place on the night between May 11 and May 12, the junta that…
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The eruption of the Tonga volcano in January has been confirmed as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the atmosphere by modern instrumentation. It was far bigger than any 20th Century volcanic event, or indeed any atom bomb test…
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Gunmen who abducted dozens of train passengers in northern Nigeria have released one of the hostages - a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told her she had been freed on…
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Anti-abortion activists have protested in Croatia amid a fierce debate about reproductive rights in the country. While abortion is legal in the strongly Catholic EU nation, rising religious pressure means many doctors are refusing to…
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A colonial-era unexploded mortar bomb was discovered in a village in central Kenya that some residents mistook for an overgrown local root vegetable. Kenyan police said concerned villagers milled around the object, some arguing “that it…
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A female prison guard who went on the run with a murder suspect from an Alabama jail has died after shooting herself as the pair were caught, police say. Vicky White, 58, died in hospital after she and Casey White (no relation), 38, were…
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Dozens of people were killed after armed men raided a gold mine in Djugu in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province on Sunday. The AFP news agency quotes a local official as saying that 29 bodies had been retrieved from…
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"We thought those were our last minutes. It was extremely scary but we were lucky." Elena is recalling the moment Russian troops started shelling, after she and a group of escapees passed through one of their checkpoints. After two…
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At least 22 people have died and more than 60 have been hospitalized after a massive explosion rocked one of Cuba’s most exclusive five-star hotels. It is believed a gas tanker which was parked outside the Saratoga Hotel in Old Havana…
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A German woman has been found guilty of sexual assault after poking holes in her partner’s condoms in an attempt to get pregnant, according to reports. The woman, 39, was in a “friends with benefits” relationship with the man when she…
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