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Nampula is the worst affected region, accounting for a third of all cases. (Representational) Maputo: More than 90 people died when an overcrowded makeshift ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities said on Sunday. The converted fishing boat, carrying about 130 people, ran into trouble as it tried to reach an island…
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L), US President Joe Biden (C) and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) hold a press conference after a trilateral meeting during the AUKUS summit. File. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The U.S., Britain and Australia are set to begin talks on bringing new members into their AUKUS security pact…
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British runner Russ Cook, centre, celebrates with supporters after arriving to the finish line in Ras Angela, the most northern point of the African continent, in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday, April 7, 2024. Cook — known on social media by his nickname, Hardest Geezer — has run more than 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles), from the south…
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But some hostage families are wary, with previous rounds of negotiations having gone nowhere. Jerusalem: Thousands of protesters rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday demanding the release of around 130 hostages still held in Gaza after six months of Israel’s war against Hamas. Hamas gunmen burst into Israel on Oct. 7, killed 1,200 people in their…
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Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese border village of Tayr Harfa on April 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel’s military said on April 7 its warplanes had struck Hezbollah sites in eastern Lebanon, where the Iran-backed group has a strong presence, in retaliation for one of its drones being downed….
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In this grabtaken from a video released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on April 7, 2024, a view of the flooded street after part of a dam burst, in Orsk, Russia. State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency. The floods, caused…
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Israeli soldiers patrol in a tank near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, on the Israeli side on April 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s military announced on April 7 it was drawing back some forces from a Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza following a major…
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Cheosim Bom, a key member of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), was arrested Dhaka: Bangladesh’s security agencies on Sunday arrested a senior commander of a tribal insurgent group believed to have links with an Islamist terrorist organisation, days after the outfit looted state-owned banks and abducted a bank manager in the southeastern hills, officials said….
Musk promised to legally challenge the order where possible. (File) Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to block certain accounts, and he called on Sunday for the judge’s resignation. “This judge has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the…
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Trump has long boasted of having done more for Israel than any other US president. (File) At the start of Israel’s war with Hamas in October, Donald Trump loudly presented himself as the key US ally’s ultimate champion. But six months and more than 33,000 deaths in Gaza later, the Republican White House hopeful has…
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