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South Sudan’s former vice president Riek Machar will be reinstated in his position as part of a peace deal to end a near five-year-old war that has devastated Africa’s youngest nation, the presidency said on Sunday. According to a…
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The operation to free 12 boys and their coach from a cave in northern Thailand is running "smoothly", the head of the operation says. At least four boys have been brought above ground, rescuers say, although local media have put it at six.…
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has begun a visit to Eritrea, days after the two countries agreed to end a two decade-old border dispute. He was welcomed in the Eritrean capital Asmara by President Isaias Afewerki. The trip follows a…
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Parts of western Japan hit by deadly floods and landslides are facing unprecedented danger as more downpours are expected, officials warn. "We've never experienced this kind of rain before," a weather official said. More than 60 people…
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Forty nine people have been killed and 48 are unaccounted for in western and central Japan as torrential rain pounds the area, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes. Japan’s…
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North Korea has branded the US attitude at the latest talks over its nuclear programme "regrettable" and "extremely troubling". The statement, by an unnamed foreign ministry official, contradicted the version of events given by US…
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Militants have launched their first major attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu since the start of Ramadan almost two months ago. Journalists say al-Shabab fighters stormed the ministry of the interior and national security after…
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Kenya's Health Ministry has advised against the use of a new HIV drug among women after studies in Botswana linked it to serious birth defects. US and European drug agencies had already issued warnings about dolutegravir, or DTG, in May…
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A three-year-old boy is the latest child to die in South Africa after drowning in a pit latrine. Omari Monono died in the outside toilet at his aunt's house in Limpopo province, the same region where five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in…
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Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs worth hundreds of billions of dollars on Chinese imports to the US as a trade war between the world's two largest economies began on Friday. US tariffs on $34bn (£25.7bn) of Chinese goods have…
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