WORLD

Nearly a week after four University of Idaho students were found dead in their rental home, a coroner has revealed they were stabbed in their beds. The three young women and young man were probably sleeping when they were attacked on…
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The ending of the constitutional right to abortion played a significant role in the outcome of the US midterm elections. One argument used as the Supreme Court considered overturning Roe v Wade in the summer was that an alternative to…
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An Israeli fugitive, described as the country’s most wanted gang leader, has been arrested in South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg. He was arrested in an early morning raid together with seven others, according to a police…
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Republicans have secured the 218 seats needed for a majority in the lower chamber of Congress a week after the midterm elections, the BBC’s US partner CBS News projects. While the party’s margin in the House of Representatives is…
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Amazon is preparing to cut thousands of office jobs amid slowing sales and concerns about an economic downturn, according to reports. The reductions could affect roughly 3% of office staff at the e-commerce giant – or about 10,000 people…
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An ongoing investigation into the deaths of more than 70 children in The Gambia linked to cough syrups made in India, has been delayed by parents of the victims not cooperating with investigators, a senior medical officer has said. In…
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Zambia has demanded answers over the death of a student who was fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Lusaka has asked Moscow “to urgently provide information on the circumstances” surrounding Lemekhani Nyirenda’s death. The 23-year-old, a…
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Police in Nigeria say suspected Biafran separatists have shot dead a traditional ruler and his two aides in the south-eastern state of Imo. The gunmen visited the palace in Oguta under the guise of reporting an emergency situation before…
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Tinashe Farawo had the grim task of delivering the mutilated body of a 30-year-old farmer who had been trampled to death by an elephant in northern Zimbabwe to his distraught family. It is something that Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife…
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Rishi Sunak is promising to “call out Putin’s regime” at a gathering of world leaders in Indonesia. The prime minister is travelling to Bali on Sunday afternoon for a summit of the G20 – the world’s biggest economies. British…
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