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Greece plane crash: Cargo aircraft was carrying weapons to Bangladesh – minister
Zambia has extradited a Chinese filmmaker to neighbouring Malawi to face charges relating to racism and child exploitation. Lu Ke…
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Sri Lanka economy crisis to get worse before it gets better, PM says
Sri Lanka’s new prime minister has told the BBC an economic crisis that has brought misery and unrest is “going…
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Nigerians sharing ‘school sex tape’ face 14 years
Nigerians have been warned that sharing images of child pornography is an offence that carries a 14-year jail term after…
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Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, prompted by Russian war in Ukraine
Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, moves that would likely infuriate Moscow and that officials say would further underscore Russia’s strategic error…
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Electricity lost in large parts of Nigeria after power blackout
Many Nigerians have once again been left without state-supplied electricity for several hours, three weeks after the president apologised for…
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Two Britons are among four tourists missing after diving trip in Malaysia
Malaysian authorities were searching on Thursday for four Europeans, including two Britons, who disappeared during diving training off a southern…
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Kenya to use solar panels to boost crops by ‘harvesting the sun twice’
Solar panels are not a new way of providing cheap power across much of the African continent, where there is…
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Canadian truckers block main bridge to US as Trudeau demands end to protest
Traffic has ground to a halt at the busiest border crossing in North America, as Canadian truckers and others angry…
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Beijing authorities conduct mass Covid testing as cases rise before Olympics
Beijing’s city government has introduced measures to contain a recent outbreak of Covid-19, as China’s capital continued to report new…
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Ten die after Brazilian cliff collapses onto leisure boats
Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake. Another 32…
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