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Gunmen massacre 74 in Nigeria’s Benue state
At least 74 people were killed in Nigeria’s Benue state in two separate attacks by gunmen this week, local officials and police said on Saturday, 8th of April, the latest clashes in an area where vio…
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Birth rates drastically shrink in Italy as country hits record low in 2022, population dwindle further
Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy’s dearth of babies is considered a n…
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Angry China unleash 42 fighter jets around Taiwan as intense drill kicks in
Forty-two Chinese fighter jets briefly crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the spe…
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Russian lawmakers push for tougher sentences for terrorism, treason
Russian legislators on Friday proposed tougher sentences for those convicted of terrorism, high treason and sabotage, domestic news agencies reported, a move officials have been cited as saying was p…
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Ethiopia to dissolve regional special forces in bid to push ‘centralized army’
The Ethiopian government said on Thursday it intends to integrate all regional special forces either into the national army, or the federal or regional police, a move likely to be perceived as an att…
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UAE dismisses S.African request to extradite Gupta brothers
A United Arab Emirates court has dismissed South Africa’s request to extradite Atul and Rajesh Gupta, brothers who face charges of political corruption, but the Gulf state said on Friday the extradit…
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IMF’s Georgieva tells China to Speed up work on debt restructuring for Ghana and others
International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said she told China’s new top economic official, Li Qiang, that China must accelerate its work to reach debt restructuring agreements for countr…
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Uganda’s president expresses readiness to sign anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has stated his readiness to sign an anti-LGBTQ+ bill should it reach his table. Museveni, recently called on African nations to take the lead in rejecting the promot…
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Stormy Daniels says Trump should not go to prison in hush money case
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of the criminal case against Donald Trump, said she does not think the former president should go to prison if convicted of concealing hush money pay…
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Robert Kennedy Jr to make 2024 Democratic presidential bid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and vaccine skeptic, will make a bid for the White House in 2024, becoming the second long-shot Democratic candidate to challenge President Joe Biden in his expected r…