World
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Uganda sends out more troops on intense chase after terrorists massacred 37 students
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of th…
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Putin to African leaders – West responsible for a sharp rise in food prices in Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water…
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Election to replace UK’s Boris Johnson set for July 20
The successor to Boris Johnson’s seat in Britain’s parliament will be chosen in a by-election vote on July 20, the local council said on Thursday, after the former prime minister quit over an investi…
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Starbucks ordered to pay over $25m to former manager who was fired for being White
A court has ordered Coffee giant Starbucks to pay $25.6 million to a former store manager who a jury determined had been fired because she was White. The former regional manager, Shannon Phillips, wh…
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Kidney stone the size of a grapefruit sets new Guinness World Record after being dug out from a patient
The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in Sri Lanka and it’s about the size of a grapefuit, as long as a banana and as heavy as four hamsters. At 13.372 centimeters (5.26 in…
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Greece hunts for survivors after 79 migrants died in shipwreck
Rescuers were scouring the seas off Greece on Thursday in a massive search operation as hopes dwindled for survivors of a shipwreck that killed at least 79 people, in one of Europe’s deadliest such d…
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Boris Johnson wilfully misled parliament, new report claims; former PM dubs it ‘rubbish’
Britain’s Boris Johnson should be denied automatic access to parliament for deliberately misleading lawmakers over rule-breaking COVID lockdown parties, a committee said on Thursday in a damning repo…
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China’s Leader Xi Jinping backs ‘just cause’ of Palestinian statehood
After asserting his diplomatic footprints in the highly volatile region of the Middle East, President Xi Jinping while meeting Palestinian leader Mehmud Abbas said Wednesday that China supports the P…
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13-year-old ex-students shoots teacher at elementary school in Bosnia
Officials said Wednesday that a 13-year-old former student opened fire on an English teacher at an elementary school in the northeastern Bosnian city of Lukavac. The interior ministry of Tuzla canton…
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Grown woman sentenced for raping 8-year-old boy
A wave of outrage has swept across Tanzania following the revelation that a middle-aged woman has been found guilty of raping an eight-year-old boy, causing him to contract sexually transmitted disea…