Diamond-rich Botswana declares national public health emergency
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBotswana has declared a public health emergency as it faces a shortage of essential medicines and medical equipment. Read More
Residents of Uganda capital concerned about US deportations pact
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUgandans on Tuesday questioned an agreement with the United States to receive deported migrants, highlighting the lack of parliamentary approval and that…
Homeless man admits murdering woman with mallet after she invited him into £1.3m home
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA homeless man has confessed to murdering a Good Samaritan who offered him a place to stay at her £1.3million home. Read…
Plastics: all around us and inside us
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePlastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. Read More
Two gay men grimace in pain as they are brutally whipped in public Sharia caning over their same-sex relations in Indonesian province of Aceh
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the moment two gay men grimaced in agony as they were brutally whipped in public over their same-sex relations in…
Woman handed suspended sentence and ordered to pay over £6k for submitting false council housing application
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman has been handed a suspended sentenced and ordered to pay more than £6,300 after council officers found she had submitted…
Millions of Britons face higher energy bills as price cap rises 2%
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMillions of British households will see higher energy bills from October after regulator Ofgem increased its price cap by 2%, in a…
Colombia says villagers taking orders from rebel groups kidnapped 34 soldiers
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteColombia’s government said Tuesday that 34 of its soldiers fighting rebels in the south have been “kidnapped” by villagers acting under the…
Cameroon: 13 hostages likely kidnapped by Boko Haram freed
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe young hostages disappeared on 13 August from a bus. One boy was executed because a ransom payment was not made in…
Cholera spreads from Sudan to Chad, kills 63 in eastern province
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe disease arrived in refugee camps hosting Sudanese civilians fleeing the conflict in their country in July. 938 cases are so far…