World
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Mixed emotions over arrest of Lockerbie bombing suspect
The families of the victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am plane have expressed both concern and delight about the arrest, by the United States, of a Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that des…
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Terrorists kill four traders, injure another in Nigeria’s Katsina
Four traders in the Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State were killed by terrorists on Sunday, Dec. 11. The traders were going to a market close to the local government headquarters from Zanda…
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Britain braces for winter of strike action as nurses walk out
British nurses will go on strike this week, hitting already stretched hospitals and cranking up pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to quell the biggest wave of industrial action to hit the countr…
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Ukraine steps up diplomacy amid fighting, power outages
The United States is prioritising efforts to boost Ukraine’s air defences, President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stepped up efforts to secure …
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Twenty-seven men believed to be Ethiopian migrants found dead along road in Zambia
Zambian police on Sunday found the bodies of 27 men, believed to be migrants from Ethiopia, dumped in a farming area on the outskirts of the capital after they died from suspected hunger and exhausti…
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Buffalo supermarket shooter seeks plea deal to escape death penalty
The white man who admitted to shooting dead 10 Black people at a western New York grocery store in May would consider pleading guilty to federal charges if prosecutors do not pursue a death sentence,…
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Japan, Britain and Italy to build joint jet fighter
Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defence collaboration …
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Saudi Arabia signs Huawei deal to deepen China ties on Xi visit
Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the…
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Iran holds first execution over anti-government protests
Iran hanged a man on Thursday convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the first such execution over recent anti…
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Brittney Griner released from Russian custody in prisoner swap with Viktor Bout
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been released in a prisoner swap with Russia and is on her way back to the United States, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, ending what he called months o…