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A video of a wild elephant in India blowing out ash from a fire has baffled wildlife experts around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgd4zMHK40 Vinay Kumar, a scientist belonging to the Wildlife Conservation Society (India),…
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Lawyers representing South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma have said they will challenge the state prosecutor’s decision to charge him with corruption, reports IOL news site. Mr Zuma was issued with court summons in connection with…
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BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane writes about the anger and anguish of villagers caught up in the latest spiral of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A dark line ran across the small, beautiful face. On either side were stitch…
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The son of Angola's ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos has been formally accused of fraud over the alleged illegal transfer of $500m (£350m) from the central bank to the UK. José Filomeno dos Santos is also barred from leaving the…
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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have wrapped up an unprecedented whirlwind trip to the Chinese capital, ahead of a planned summit with his South Korean counterpart and a potential meeting with US President Donald Trump.…
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Hundreds of people are protesting in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, angry at Russian officials over the leisure complex fire that killed at least 64 people, 41 of them children. President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kemerovo earlier and…
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An adult film actress has said she was threatened to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006. Stormy Daniels told CBS News’ 60 Minutes programme that a man approached her in a Las Vegas car park in 2011.…
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At least 53 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. As many as 41 children may be among the victims, officials say, and more than 10 are…
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The number of people around the world who were severely hungry has risen from 80 million in 2015 to 124 million in 2017, a senior UN official said Friday. Speaking via video conference from Switzerland, UN World Food Programme Executive…
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Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, has been meeting more than 100 girls after their dramatic release this week by Boko Haram, abducted from their boarding school dormitories in the town of Dapchi in the northeast. Buhari held the…
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