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Donning hijabs and floor-length abaya gowns over shorts and tank tops, Chinese students at an e-commerce school perform into a smartphone camera as they learn how to sell the clothes to overseas TikTok users. It is the final day of a two-week course on selling products abroad via the short video app -- which despite…
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Palestinian militant group Hamas released on Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7. "I went to hang out with my…
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Three people were injured in an apparent stabbing at a secondary school in Wales on Wednesday, police said. The attack occurred at the Amman Valley School, about 60 miles (100 miles) northwest of Cardiff. Two air ambulances were seen at the school, along with a number of police vehicles. "Three people have been injured and…
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An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, local media reported Wednesday. "Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court... sentenced Toomaj Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the singer's lawyer, Amir Raisian,…
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The United Arab Emirates announced $544 million to repair the homes of Emirati families on Wednesday after last week's record rains caused widespread flooding and brought the oil-rich Gulf state to a standstill. "We learned great lessons in dealing with severe rains," said Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum after a cabinet meeting, adding…
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France's Court of Cassation on Wednesday confirmed the conviction of former premier Francois Fillon in a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 presidential bid but ordered a new trial for his sentencing. Fillon, 70, was sentenced on appeal on May 9, 2022, to four years' jail, three years of which were suspended, and a…
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Boko Haram fighters ambushed and wounded five Nigerien soldiers who were protecting a key agricultural site near the Nigerian border, local authorities said Wednesday. The site is one of two in Niger's southeastern Diffa region created to boost rice and wheat production and generate more than 12,000 jobs, according to the agriculture ministry. Diffa governor…
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that a father has been arrested alongside his son who is a candidate by the Police for impersonating his son during the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this while on an inspection tour of the UTME centres in…
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The Enugu State Government has banned all forms of illegal tolls and extortion of motorists by touts, warning that violators would face the full wrath of the law. The government also announced the cancellation of all existing produce and haulage revenue collection contracts by various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), saying those responsibilities would now…
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One of the governorship aspirants who contested the ticket of the party with Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa during last Saturday's primaries, Mayowa Akinfolarin, has dispelled the rumour that he stepped down for the governor during the shadow election. Akinfolarin, who came second after garnering 15,343 votes, disclosed that he did not back out of the contest…
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Jeffrey Donaldson, former leader of Northern Ireland's main pro-UK unionist party, had his bail extended Wednesday in his first court appearance on sex offence charges. Donaldson, 61, one of the province's best-known politicians, has previously said he will be "strenuously contesting" the allegations. In Wednesday's court hearing, he did not enter a plea. He is…
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Authorities have cancelled hundreds of flights at French airports on Thursday despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. In Paris around 75 percent of flights at Orly and 55 percent at Charles de Gaulle airport would be dropped Thursday, the…
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Four people were taken to the hospital after spooked army horses broke loose during morning exercises in central London and galloped through the streets at rush hour, the army and emergency services said. Photos and video posted on social media by British news outlets showed two horses running along busy roads, dodging buses, taxis and…
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The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a $95 billion foreign aid package, including military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which has now cleared…
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A total of 118 people were the victim of extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police last year, local and international rights groups said in a report published on Wednesday, decrying the "impunity" still enjoyed by the security forces. The figure is down around nine percent from 130 in 2022, while the number of "enforced disappearances" dropped…
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Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with some 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, UN agencies and development groups said Wednesday. Extreme weather events and economic shocks also added to the number of those facing acute food insecurity, which grew by 24 million people…
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A Madrid court said Wednesday it had opened a preliminary investigation into the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on suspicion of influence peddling and corruption. In a brief statement, the court said it had "opened an investigation into the alleged offence of influence peddling and corruption in business against Begona Gomez." It said…
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Argentina has asked Interpol to arrest Iran's interior minister over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The foreign ministry said the Iranian minister, Ahmad Vahidi, was part of a delegation from Tehran visiting Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and Interpol has issued…
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Greek police on Monday made 60 arrests over hooligan violence that killed a riot officer during a volleyball game in December, the country's police chief said. "Our commitment to combating sports violence is absolute," Dimitris Mallios said in a statement on the operation. Yiorgos Lyggeridis, 31, was fatally injured by a marine flare fired outside…
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Protests over the war in Gaza have taken hold at a handful of elite American universities as officials scramble to defuse demonstrations.
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As Kenya’s meteorological department forecasts more heavy rainfall this week, the number of people impacted by the rain rises above average as it continues.
Residents of Machakos county were stranded by flood water that destroyed their homes and farms.
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Britain's High Court agreed Tuesday to hear a legal challenge later this year over continued UK arms exports to Israel during its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. A coalition of legal advocacy groups wants the court to scrutinise the UK government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel despite claims that…
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Under a ceaseless storm of strikes in Gaza, a baby girl has survived insurmountable odds as the only member of her family left alive after she was delivered by Caesarian section as her mother lay dying. At just seven months pregnant, her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, reached the emergency unit in critical condition after she was…
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American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the country's troops after a more than two month pause. It followed another attack over the weekend in which rockets were fired from northern Iraq at a base in Syria that houses forces from…
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Thames Water, the UK's largest water supplier, has been ravaged since privatisation by soaring debts and chronic underinvestment, sinking into a deep financial crisis which has sparked bailout speculation. So how did Thames Water, serving about 15 million people across London and surrounding areas, end up in such a perilous financial state? In a controversial…