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53 people dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean
Only two survivors rescued after boat overturned off Libyan coast, UN migration agency says
Fifty-three people are dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, the UN migration agency said on Monday. Only two survivors were rescued.
The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday, in the latest
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Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90
Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history
Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor, a definitive force behind the highlife genre, has died age 90.
His son Kweku Taylor announced the news on Sunday: “The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music. Ebo Taylor passed away yesterday; a day after
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Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks
Storm Marta sweeps Iberian peninsula just days after Storms Kristin and Leonardo brought deadly flooding and major damage
Spain and Portugal have endured another storm over the weekend, just days after the deadly flooding and major damage caused by Storm Kristin and Storm Leonardo last week. Storm Marta passed over the Iberian peninsula on Saturday, bringing fresh torrential rain and
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RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan Doctors Network
A drone attack by a paramilitary group has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said on Saturday.
The attack by the Rapid Support Forces took place close to the city of Er
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Thousands of Malawi businesses close in protest over tax changes
Peaceful demonstrations force a delay in measures aimed at improving revenue collection but which many fear will be fatal for small traders
Demonstrations across Malawi’s four main cities during the past week have achieved a delay in the introduction of a new tax regime that business owners claim will cripple their livelihoods.
Tens of thousands had signed petitions which this
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Alleged drones in El Paso airspace cast spotlight on Mexican cartels’ growing arsenals
Closure of airspace draws attention to crime groups’ high-powered weapons – and may give Trump an excuse to attack
An alleged incursion by Mexican cartel drones into US airspace and the sudden closure of El Paso’s airspace has drawn renewed attention to the use of high-powered weapons
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‘No words that capture the horror’: small Canada town shattered by mass school shooting
Remote coalmining community of Tumbler Ridge struggles to make sense of attack that has left Canada in shock
Within moments of receiving reports that
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‘We will get through this’: visibly shaken Mark Carney addresses Canada after mass shooting leaves 10 dead
Flags flown at half-mast throughout country after attack in small British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge
A visibly shaken Mark Carney has promised Canadians they will make it through the aftermath of a mass shooting in a small western town, in which an assailant killed nine people and then themselves in one of the deadliest
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Canada shooting: 10 dead including suspect in attack on Tumbler Ridge high school, police say
More than 25 people are injured, including two with life-threatening injuries, after shooting at secondary school and local residence
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Moscow preparing to evacuate Russian tourists from Cuba amid US oil blockade
Cuban aviation authorities have warned country is running out of jet fuel, threatening to derail tourism industry
Moscow has said it is planning to evacuate Russian tourists from Cuba
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