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Maldives police have arrested the country's chief justice of the Supreme Court as a political crisis worsens in the Indian Ocean nation. Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and another judge, Ali Hameed, were arrested hours after the government…
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South African President Jacob Zuma is under growing pressure to step down following talks with senior members of his ANC party on Sunday. Details of the talks were not revealed but party leaders are to hold an emergency meeting on Monday.…
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Police in Zambia have threatened to arrest persons found in the possession of sex dolls and vibrators, a local portal, Mwebantu reports. According to police spokesperson, Esther Katongo, the laws of the country considered such items as…
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Chants blared through speakers as a crane lifted a massive Greek flag above Syntagma Square, where Greeks converged from across the country to rally against negotiations over a name dispute between Athens and Skopje. Hundreds of buses…
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An oil tanker with a crew of 22 Indian nationals is missing in the Gulf of Guinea off Benin in West Africa. There has been no contact with the Panama-registered Marine Express since Thursday. The incident occurred less than a month…
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China has urged the United States to drop its "Cold War mentality" and not misread China's military build-up, after Washington published a document last Friday outlining plans to expand its nuclear capabilities to deter others. "Peace…
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Nearly 200 undocumented migrants from Central America have been found hidden in a lorry without food or water in north-eastern Mexico. The men, women and children were found crammed into the truck in Tamaulipas state just south of the…
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The bodies of at least 20 people have been pulled from the sea off the coast of Melilla, a small Spanish territory bordering Morocco. Moroccan rescue services recovered the corpses after the crew of a passenger ship spotted them in the…
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North Korea has been acquiring technology for its nuclear and weapons programmes through its Berlin embassy, Germany's head of intelligence says. Hans-Georg Maassen told NDR TV that many of these activities had been thwarted, but not all…
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An Amtrak train carrying 147 people has collided with a goods train in the US state of South Carolina, killing at least two people, officials say. About 70 people were injured. Amtrak says the passenger train's lead engine and several…
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