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Isaria Anael Meli has been looking for his grandfather's remains for more than six decades. He believes the skull ended up in a Berlin museum after his grandfather, Mangi Meli, along with 18 other chiefs and advisers, was hanged by a…
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Seventy-six people were arrested for attending a birthday party for gay people in northern Nigeria, the country’s paramilitary agency has said, adding that the organizer had also planned to hold a same sex wedding, which is illegal.…
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A charity shop has asked people not to donate sex toys after recent x-rated donations. In a social media post, the Barnardo's branch in Gorseinon, Swansea, was keen to remind people that it is a children's charity. And it said it had…
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A woman went to a clinic after struggling to sleep for days - where doctors found a spider crawling around inside her ear. The 64-year-old, from Taiwan, felt movement in her left ear for several nights in April, followed by clicking and…
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As Russian missiles shatter the town of Avdiivka, Hanna is desperate to escape. But her elderly mother refuses to leave. "I can't leave her," Hanna tells us over the phone. "She said she wanted to sleep in her own bed. She's 71 and has…
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"I went through hell," says Yocheved Lifschitz, an 85-year-old grandmother and peace activist released by Hamas on Monday after two weeks in captivity. Ms Lifschitz and her husband were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen on motorbikes and taken…
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More than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu, officials say. The birds had been imported from neighbouring South Africa, which has been hit by an outbreak of the…
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The military government in Niger says it has foiled an attempt by the deposed former President, Mohamed Bazoum, to escape from custody. The former president attempted to flee in the night with his family, cooks and security, a military…
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"There is no lonelier place in this universe than around the bed of a wounded child who has no more family to look after them," British doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who is working in Gaza City, posted online. Normally a plastic and…
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Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull. They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor who said it was needed for rituals that would make them rich. The men…
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