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Nepal's newly-appointed interim prime minister says she will be in the post for no longer than six months. "I did not wish for this job. It was after voices from the streets that I was compelled to accept," Sushila Karki said, speaking…
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The trial of an alleged would-be presidential assassin started as many trials do: with jury selection. But before US District Judge Aileen Cannon called prospective jurors into the Fort Pierce, Florida courtroom, she needed clarity on a…
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Former President Laurent Gbagbo together with former Credit Suisse chief Tidjane Thiam have been barred from contesting next month's presidential election in Ivory Coast, although Gbagbo's ex-wife, Simone Gbagbo, will be able to run, an…
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Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced he is stepping down after less than a year in the role, following two major election losses. The move comes a day before his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) was expected to vote on…
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The jihadist group Boko Haram have killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno State, local officials say. On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the…
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A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria's Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, police have said. Police condemned the killing of the woman - identified in local media as a food…
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A landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told the BBC. Antoine Gérard, the UN's deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of…
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The Boeing B-29 was the most advanced bomber of World War Two, and more expensive to design and build than the atomic bombs it dropped. It also helped influence the airliners we fly on today. It was two years before Japan’s attack on…
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Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, has been killed in an air strike in Gaza City, Israel has said. Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz congratulated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel's security agency, Shin Bet,…
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Zimbabwe has brought back a ban on maize imports to boost local farmers, and has grown enough of its own this year to supply its millers after a bumper harvest, a senior agriculture ministry official said on Monday. Improved rainfall…
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