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1.6KBreakingTokyo Olympics: Uganda’s Peruth Chemtain wins steeplechase gold
TOKYO OLYMPICS, JAPAN: Ugandan Athlete Peruth Chemutai has won the women’s 3000m steeplechase race to bring home Uganda’s first gold medal in...
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1.2KCOVID-194 billion anti-Covid shots injected worldwide
Although more than four billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been administered around the world, poorer countries are still struggling to secure...
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872Africa16 Civilians Killed In Suspected Militia Attack In DR Congo
Suspected members of an Islamist militia killed 16 people as they were returning from a weekly market in eastern Democratic Republic of...
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890SportsCoronavirus forces four athletes out of Tokyo Olympics
Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday after testing positive for the coronavirus....
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889AfricaLeader of Tanzania’s main opposition party arrested
DAR-ES-SALAM: The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday ahead of a planned conference to...
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867SportsUgandan Olympics Athlete finally found days after disappearing from camp
Julius Ssekitoleko, a Ugandan weightlifter has been found four days after he disappeared from an Olympic training camp in Japan leaving a...
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1.4KAfricaDRC ex-President Joseph Kabila earns Master’s Degree
By Nation.Africa Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila has earned a Master’s degree as he utilises his break from active...
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1.5KAfrica13 killed, 11 injured after fuel tanker explodes in Kenya
NAIROBI, KENYA: Police said Sunday that 13 people were killed and many others seriously burned when an overturned petrol tanker exploded in...
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1.0KAfricaSouth Africa Protests: Death toll reaches 45 after Soweto looting stampede
Stores in two South African provinces were ransacked on Tuesday for a fifth consecutive day, hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed troops...
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958AfricaSouth Africa’s Ramaphosa deploys troops after 10 killed in ‘rare’ unrest
JOHANNESBURG: President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said the deadly unrest gripping the country is unprecedented in post-apartheid South Africa as he deployed...
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809AfricaSouth Africa deploys troops as unrest spirals after Zuma jailing
Johannesburg (AFP): South Africa’s army has deployed troops to two provinces, including its economic hub of Johannesburg, to help crush mob violence...
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1.3KBreakingJovenel Moise: Haitian president shot dead at home overnight
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim...
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1.3KAfricaWorld Bank, AU partner to vaccinate 400m Africans
The World Bank and African Union have partnered to support the Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) initiative with resources to allow countries to...
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2.5KBusinessMore than 1,100 arrested over cryptocurrency money laundering
China has arrested more than a thousand people for using the profits from crime to buy cryptocurrencies, security officials said, as part...
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1.1KAfricaBoko Haram leader ‘kills self’ in fight with rival jihadists
Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself in a fight against rival jihadist fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP)...
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1.4KAfricaMore than 230 killed in two weeks in South Sudan gun violence
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN: More than 230 people have died as a result of gun violence in South Sudan in the past two...
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1.5KAfricaMali soldiers arrest President, Prime Minister after cabinet reshuffle
FEATURED: Transition Mali President Bah Ndaw is seen during his inauguration ceremony at the CICB (Centre International de Conferences de Bamako) in...
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1.6KTech & InnovationMicrosoft announces retirement of Internet Explorer
Microsoft Corporation has said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely...
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1.0KFeaturedTeen dies in TikTok fake suicide stunt gone wrong
Hamidullah, 19, who police said was well-known locally on social media, held a friend's pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger,...
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1.5KAfricaCongo President Sassou Nguesso Names Son as Minister in New Government
The Republic of Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso has chosen a new government that includes his son as well as an opposition...
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1.1KWorld NewsBill Gates left Microsoft board amid probe into relationship with employee
Bill Gates left the Microsoft board in 2020 as the board pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s romantic relationship with a female...
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1.4KFootballFans to return to Premier League stadiums for final two matchdays
Fans will return to Premier League stadiums for the season’s final two rounds of fixtures later this month, subject to the UK...
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835Current AffairsArmed person shot trying to enter CIA headquarters
An armed person was shot by FBI agents Monday after a standoff of several hours at the entry gate to the CIA...
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1.1KWorld NewsBill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying “we no longer believe we can grow together...