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Kenyan MP ‘Accidentally Forwards Sex Tips on Whatsapp’
A first-time Kenyan MP has been asked to apologise after posting a message with sex tips on his constituency WhatsApp group, the local Daily Nation newspaper reports.
Anthony Kiai, also known as Highflyer, appeared to have forwarded the…
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Death Toll In Portugal Wildfires 27 Feared Dead
At least 27 people have died in a series of wildfires in Portugal, the country's civil protection service says.
More than 50 people have been injured.
A spokeswoman for the agency told reporters that firefighters were still tackling…
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Somalia Fights To Cope With Blast Aftermath
Somali health workers are struggling to identify and treat the victims of the country's deadliest attack, as more than 100 people are feared missing.
A truck bomb blast on Saturday in the capital, Mogadishu, killed at least 276 people…
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Woman Dies As Hurricane Ophelia Hits Ireland
Part of a tree fell on her car in West Waterford in the Republic of Ireland, as the country began to be battered by hurricane-force gusts.About 120,000 homes are without power in the Irish Republic, where the government has deployed the…
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Deadly Storm Destroys Ships In SA
Moored ships were blown away as a "supercell thunderstorm" swept through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least 11 people.
The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and two patients killed when a wall collapsed…
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Liberia Poll Knock By Fraud Claims
One of Liberia's leading political parties has called for a halt in announcing results of Tuesday's presidential election.
In a statement, the Liberal Party said it was deeply troubled by the discovery of irregularities and fraud, and…
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Boko Haram Convicts ‘Jailed For Eight Years’
About 20 people have so been found guilty in Nigeria for involvement with the Islamist militant Boko Haram group at closed-door trials taking place at a military facility in Kainji in north-central Niger state, a source has told the BBC.…
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Kenya Bans Protests In Cities Amid Election Fallout
Kenya has banned protests in three major city centres following weeks of demonstrations by opposition supporters.
Fred Matiangi, acting internal security minister, said rallies are banned in the central business districts of the capital,…
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Trump Resists Pressure To Soften
President Donald Trump finds himself under immense pressure as he considers de-certifying the international nuclear deal with Iran, a move that would ignore warnings from inside and outside his administration that to do so would risk…
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Vietnam Flash Floods And Landslides Kill Dozens
Another 40 are missing, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes, as a tropical depression sweeps across northern and central Vietnam.
Among the missing is a local journalist reporting on the floods, who was swept away after a…
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