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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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The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has released a blow- by-blow account of how busted fake advocate Brian Mwenda Njagi was able to criminally access the LSK portal, identify an account with a name corresponding to his, tamper with the details,…
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France will deploy 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a terror attack killed a school teacher and wounded three others, the president's office has said, while the Louvre was evacuated after a threat. The museum in Paris …
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A man trying to become the youngest person to cross the Pacific Ocean in a handmade boat had to be rescued by a cruise ship after it capsized. Tom Robinson, 24, from Brisbane, Australia, began his 8,000-mile journey in his boat 'Maiwar'…
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