WRITTEN BY: ASHLEY LIME The man who was the face of the Kenyan government in the aftermath of the police’s deadly crackdown on recent anti-tax protests is set to become the country’s next deputy president. Parliament has approved the nomination…
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Moldova’s referendum on whether to change its constitution and commit to joining the EU hangs in the balance, with the No and Yes votes neck and neck. With Yes on 49.9% and No on 50.1% – with 97% of the…
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The US is investigating a leak of classified documents describing an American assessment of Israel’s plans to attack Iran, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has confirmed. The documents were reportedly published online last week and are said to describe…
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Large parts of Cuba are without power as Category 1 Hurricane Oscar approaches from the east. On Friday, the country’s main energy plant failed and knocked out electricity to 10 million people. Supply was partially restored on Saturday, before collapsing…
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The lawyer of a prominent Mozambican opposition figure has been shot dead in the capital, Maputo, along with an official from the same party on Friday night. Elvino Dias was the attorney of Venâncio Mondlane, who ran for president of…
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Liam Payne (31), former One Direction star, died in Argentina after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.In a statement, police say they discovered his body after an emergency crew responded to an emergency…
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The US has written to Israel, giving it 30 days to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off. The letter, sent on Sunday, amounts to the strongest known written warning from the…
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A fuel tanker exploded overnight in northern Nigeria as it was surrounded by a crowd of people who had rushed to the scene of an accident to collect leaking petrol. At least 94 people were burnt to death as fire…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLdJYwqTPo New Caledonia is home to a creature subject to a peculiar evolution: the kagu has wings, but cannot fly. These wings, however, are an important part of its exuberant display when breeding season comes around.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX6NaVks3w BBC Africa Eye investigates what is fast becoming the world’s deadliest migration route: the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands. Father-of-two Mouhamed has never been to sea, but he is about to take what is…
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India and Canada have expelled their top envoys along with other diplomats as the row intensifies over last year’s assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government responded after police began pursuing…
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The government says it is allowing some “eligible” Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside the British military to resettle in the UK, after they were previously rejected. Under the previous government, about 2,000 Afghans who served with specialist units…
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