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Ceremonies have been held in Ethiopia and Kenya for the 157 victims of last week’s Ethiopia Airlines plane crash. Relatives wept and threw themselves on the red coffins of the 12 Ethiopian victims at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the…
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Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wounded in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques. Tarrant, handcuffed and wearing a…
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The death in Italy of a Moroccan model who was a regular guest at former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sex parties is being treated as a possible murder, magistrates say. Imane Fadil, 33, died in a Milan hospital on 1 March, a month…
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A tropical storm has swept away bridges and homes in eastern Zimbabwe, killing at least 24 people, officials say. Cyclone Idai cut off power and communications in parts of Manicaland province on the border with Mozambique. Some 40…
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President Donald Trump has vetoed a measure from Congress revoking his declaration of a national emergency at the US-Mexico border. Lawmakers, including 12 Republicans, had passed the rejection resolution on Thursday in a surprising rebuke…
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People living in one of Mozambique’s largest cities have been warned to expect the “worst-case scenario” as a major cyclone makes landfall. Cyclone Idai, which is carrying winds of up to 225 km/h (140 mph), is making landfall near the…
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Facebook has said that a “server configuration change” was to blame for the worst outage in its history. It said it had “triggered a cascading series of issues” for its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. The disruption, which…
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may break off denuclearisation talks with the US and resume missile and nuclear testing, a senior official says. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui told foreign diplomats the US threw away “a golden…
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Forty people have been killed and more than 20 seriously wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incidents as a terrorist attack, and one of the country’s “darkest…
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The government will provide free sanitary products in secondary schools and colleges in England from the next school year. The chancellor made the announcement in the spring statement, where the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast…
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