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Ugandans are Thursday casting their votes in a high-stakes election held under heavy security as veteran leader Yoweri Kaguta Museveni pursues a sixth term against a former pop star…
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The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at last week’s Capitol riot. Ten Republicans sided with Democrats to impeach the…
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A judge has granted the only woman on US federal death row a 24-hour stay of execution to check whether she is competent to be put to death on mental health grounds. Lisa Montgomery,…
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Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has dismissed Health Minister, Chitalu Chilufya, who was arrested in June for corruption but was later cleared. Mr Chilufya was charged with four…
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The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “very disappointed” China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus. A ten-strong team of…
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Former President of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya, has died aged 71, his cousin and a diplomatic source have confirmed to the BBC. The family source said he died in Paris on Thursday due to…
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America’s most senior general met Taliban peace negotiators on Tuesday to urge a reduction in violence, the US military said. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,…
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A Japanese man dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’, who pleaded guilty to killing nine people in a high-profile mass murder case in 2017, was sentenced to death on Tuesday, the Tokyo District…
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Eunice Hunton Carter, right from age eight, had the desire to study law. She once told a young boy on the beach that she wanted to be a lawyer to ensure “the bad people went to jail.”…
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Joe Biden has officially secured enough electoral votes to become the next president of the United States. Biden crossed the Electoral College’s 270-vote threshold on Monday,…
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