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Gabon rescuers search for 31 people missing after ferry sinks
Gabonese authorities were searching on Monday for 31 people still missing after a ferry sank last week just off the coast of the central African country, killing six people. The Esther Miracle ferry …
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Hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants attempt to force their way into U.S. through Mexico border
U.S. officials stopped hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants entering the country from Mexico on Sunday after a large group broke through Mexican lines to demand asylum in the U.S., only to be thwar…
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Suspected Islamist militants kill 19 in another village raid in east Congo
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people and burned a medical facility in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo early on Sunday morning, two regional officials and…
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Boat capsizes off Madagascar on way to Mayotte, 22 killed
Twenty two people died when a boat carrying them off Madagascar capsized while they attempted to sail to the French island of Mayotte, Madagascar’s port authority said on Sunday. The boat, which was …
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German storms Jehovah’s Witness hall, kills six, including unborn child, injure others
A gunman in Germany shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall in Hamburg, authorities said on Friday, in an attack that is bound to renew calls for stricter gun …
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China’s president Xi Jinping garnered over 3,000 unanimous votes to win third term
Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as president of China on Friday during a parliamentary session in which he tightened his control of the world’s second-largest economy as it emerges…
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Islamist terrorists storm Nigeria’s Borno state, kill 33 fishermen
Islamist militants have killed at least 25 people in an attack in a fishing town in Nigeria’s Borno state, police and residents said on Thursday. Police commissioner Abdu Umar linked the attack in Di…
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Eleven soldiers killed in Burkina Faso’s effort to regain territory
Unidentified militants in Burkina Faso killed 11 soldiers and wounded four others during an operation to retake territory in the east and north on Thursday, the military said. Since 2018 Burkina Faso…
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Kansas legislature passes bill to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports
Kansas’ Republican-led legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from playing girls or women’s school sports if they were born male. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Dem…
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[Photos] Six confirmed dead after train ran into moving bus in Lagos
Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given an update with regards to the unfortunate accident that occurred as a moving train rammed into a state bus conveying civil servants to work in the …