World
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US President, Joe Biden to declare re-election campaign ‘next week’
US President Joe Biden is expected to formally announce his second election campaign for 2024 next week about whether he’s running for the president or allowing another Democrat to run for the White …
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PTI disapprove for ‘organised campaign’ over Mufti Abdul Shakoor’s death
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday strongly condemned an “organised campaign” run by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on social media over demise of former re…
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Fox News solves Dominion defamation case for $787.5m
Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. In a last-minute settlement before trial, the network agreed…
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U.S. Guardsman nabbed after applying to be an assassin on fake website
A Tennessee, USA Air National Guardsman has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly applying to be an assassin on a fake website “Rent-a-Hitman.” The site was originally set up in 2005 to advertise …
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Kenyan man arrested for brutally defiling own 2-year-old daughter
Police from Wanguru police station in Mwea East, Kirinyaga County, Kenya, have arrested a man suspected to have defiled his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. According to Citizen Digital, the minor …
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Russian court throws out U.S. reporter Gershkovich’s detention appeal
A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least May 29 while a spyi…
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U.S. agents arrest two for setting up Chinese ‘police station’ in New York
U.S. federal agents arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in the Chinatown district of Manhattan on Monday in what prosecutors said was part of a c…
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Nigeria’s regulator greenlights Oxford’s malaria vaccine
Nigeria has granted provisional approval to Oxford University’s R21 malaria vaccine, its medicines regulator said on Monday, making it the second country to do so after Ghana last week. The mosquito-…
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Tanzania seals $667m deal with Australian firms for mining of rare earth minerals and graphite
Tanzania on Monday signed agreements worth $667 million with three Australian companies to mine rare earth minerals and graphite, part of the president’s drive to fast-track negotiations on long-pend…
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BBC Africa Eye probe awful cases of child sexual abuse, incest in Uganda
During the pandemic, underage pregnancies soared in Uganda with a 366.5% increase in girls aged 10-14 becoming pregnant.1 The North in particular, has suffered a tragic level of child sexual abuse a…