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Brazil Will Quit U.N. Migration Pact, Incoming Minister Says
Brazil will pull out of a United Nations pact on dealing with rising migration, the incoming foreign relations minister said, joining the United States and a growing number of countries in rejecting the agreement.
Ernesto Araújo - who…
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250,000 Syrian Refugees Could Return Home Next Year: UNHCR
Up to a 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on…
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EU Tells UK’s May: We Will Not Renegotiate the Brexit Treaty
The European Union ruled out renegotiating the Brexit divorce treaty or its Irish border protocol on Tuesday as Prime Minister Theresa May sought last ditch assurances from the bloc to save her deal after pulling a vote she acknowledged she…
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Mozambique Busts ‘30,000 Ghost Workers’
Mozambique's government has discovered more than 30,000 ghost workers on the civil service payroll.
The civil service minister said some were paid for jobs they had not done, others were dead or fictitious.
The fraud had cost the…
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South Africa Protests to Rwanda over Lindiwe Sisulu Slur
South Africa has summoned the Rwandan envoy in Pretoria after a Rwandan pro-government news site reportedly called a key minister a "prostitute".
Lindiwe Sisulu, the South African international relations minister, has also been criticised…
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Nigeria Elections: “I Have No Preferred Presidential Candidate” – Obasanjo
Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he has no preferred candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
He made the remarks at the 27th annual Owu National Convention, held in Iwo, Osun State…
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Macron To Blame For French Protests, Italy’s Salvini says
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday President Emmanuel Macron was to blame for the “yellow vest” protests that haverattled France and urged Brussels to take heed of what was happening.Salvini, head of the rightist…
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Trump Calls for End To Mueller Probe
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday renewed his call to end a federal probe into Russian election meddling, describing the investigation as a “witch hunt” a day after U.S. prosecutors detailed a previously unknown attempt by a Russian…
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Yellow Vest Protest In Paris Sees Police Detain Hundreds
Police in Paris have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as a fourth weekend of anti-government protests across France turned violent.
The French interior ministry said 118 people had been injured in the protests in several cities,…
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Diane Rwigara: Rwanda Government Critic Acquitted
A Rwandan court in the capital, Kigali, has acquitted government critic Diane Rwigara and her mother of charges of inciting insurrection and forgery.
Ms Rwigara was imprisoned for over a year, after being barred from running in…
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