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Police have launched an investigation in South Korea after a doctor performed an abortion by mistake. On August 7, a pregnant patient with a 6-week-old fetus had gone to a clinic in district of Gangseo, in the country's capital Seoul,…
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Tunisia’s former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile aged 83, his family says. Ben Ali led the country for 23 years and was credited with delivering stability and some economic prosperity. But he received widespread…
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A Zimbabwean union leader who was thought to have been abducted is alive and well, reports say. Peter Magombeyi had organised a series of strikes over poor pay and working conditions in recent weeks. On Saturday, he sent a message…
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The woman found guilty of murdering her four children in Klarinet in eMalahleni in Mpumalanga, has been sentenced to four life terms in prison by the Mpumalanga High Court in South Africa. Delivering the sentence in Middelburg on Friday,…
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One person was killed and five others wounded on Thursday in a shooting on the streets of Washington, D.C., not far from the White House, police said. It was not immediately clear if a suspect had been taken into custody in the incident,…
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Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested a former health minister for allegedly mismanaging funds allocated for the Ebola epidemic. Oly Ilunga resigned as health minister in July after being stripped of responsibility for…
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The United States has issued satellite images and cited intelligence to back its claim that Iran was behind attacks on major Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies involvement in Saturday’s air attacks, which were claimed by Iran-aligned Houthi…
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At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport people on lakes and rivers. It was travelling to DR…
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US President Donald Trump has angrily defended Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who is facing fresh allegations of sexual misconduct. A former university classmate of Justice Kavanaugh's has said he exposed himself at a student…
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Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe has died aged 95. His death was announced by his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who mourned him as an "icon of liberation". "It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of…
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