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A Russian military transport plane has crashed in Syria killing more than 30 people, the defence ministry says. The An-26 plane crashed during landing at Hmeimim airbase, near the coastal city of Latakia, the ministry is quoted as saying…
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Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore called on the public on Saturday to collaborate more closely with the armed forces, the day after attacks at army headquarters and the French embassy left 16 people dead, including eight gunmen, and…
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The chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group in Sierra Leone, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and other colleague former Heads of State heading various Observer Missions have been meeting in Freetown to review preparations towards the Wednesday…
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The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October. It is not clear why the release of the video – on an IS outlet on messaging app Telegram – was…
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French President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel and acting SPD leader Olaf Scholz after Germany’s Social Democrats voted in favor of forming a new coalition, the French presidency said on Sunday. “It’s…
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Removing presidential term limits in the state constitution is about protecting the authority of the ruling Communist Party with President Xi Jinping at its center, a Chinese government spokesman said on Sunday. The party said last Sunday…
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A man has shot and killed himself outside the White House in Washington, the Secret Service says. It said the man approached the White House’s fence on Pennsylvania Avenue just before noon local time (17:00GMT) before taking out a handgun…
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Police in the US state of Michigan have arrested a student suspected of shooting dead his parents when they came to pick him up for spring break. James Eric Davis Jr is suspected of gunning down his mother and father in his dormitory a…
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Three aid workers have been killed in Nigeria’s north eastern town of Rann during an attack by militants at a military facility, news agency Reuters reports quoting a UN spokeswoman. A fourth aid worker may also have been killed and…
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The world’s biggest investment management firm, BlackRock Inc, is stepping up pressure on companies that make and sell guns in response to the Florida school shooting. It is considering excluding them from some of its portfolios and is…
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