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An attempt by inmates to break out of a high-security prison in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, has led to the deaths of 129 people, the authorities say. Interior Minister Shabani Lukoo said that 24 prisoners…
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Three children and two teenagers have been arrested over the murder of an 80-year-old man. The man, who was walking his dog in Franklin Park, Leicestershire, was seriously assaulted around 6.30pm on Sunday and died in hospital last…
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Dogs have a baffling obsession with rolling in foul-smelling substances. It may be part of a form of communication we are only just starting to understand. It would happen whenever Simon Gadbois took his border collie Zyla out on a…
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Shikma Bressler, a prominent political activist and one of the leading figures during the historic 2023 protests in Israel, told CNN she feels today’s protest is “different.” “I think the people of Israel were educated to make life a…
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Rescuers in the Russian far-east have found no survivors in the wreckage of a helicopter that disappeared while carrying 22 people - most of them tourists. The aircraft went missing on Saturday after taking off from a base near the…
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Scientists are "working blindly" in Africa to track and tackle mpox, an infectious disease expert, who also chairs the WHO's mpox emergency committee, has said. Experts studying the virus said it has spread out of the Democratic Republic…
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At least five people, including two children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an urban refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed the strike, on Nur…
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Anthony Fauci, the face of the US government's response to the Covid pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalised with West Nile virus. The immunologist and former chief medical adviser to the president was hospitalised with…
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At least 14 people have died after a bus carrying passengers from India fell into a river in Nepal, officials have said. There were around 40 people on the bus, which was travelling to Nepal's capital Kathmandu from Pokhara, according to…
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A British warship has seized cocaine with a street value of more than £40m from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, the Royal Navy has said. HMS Trent confiscated half a tonne, or 506kg, of the Class A narcotic after it intercepted a…
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