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Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row
South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior official
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.
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Security fears rise in Nigeria after more than 300 schoolchildren kidnapped
Christian group revises up number of students and teachers missing after one of country’s largest mass abduction
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said on Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.
The early Friday raid on St Mary’s co-educational school in Niger
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South Africa declares gender-based violence a national disaster amid G20 protests
Women’s groups welcomed the announcement on the eve of the international leaders’ summit in Johannesburg
Hundreds of women gathered in cities across South Africa on Friday to protest against gender-based violence in the country before the G20 summit in Johannesburg this weekend.
Demonstrators turned out in 15 locations – including Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban –
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Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week
Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’
Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.
The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat
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South Africa’s dispute with US escalates amid row over G20 handover event
Trump press secretary accuses Cyril Ramaphosa of ‘running his mouth’ after US boycott of summit in Johannesburg
The dispute between South Africa and the US over the Trump administration’s decision to boycott the G20 in Johannesburg has continued, with South Africa objecting to a US plan for a junior embassy official to take part in the closing ceremony meant to mark the handover to the
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US reportedly to launch new phase of operations against Venezuela – US politics live
Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization and could impose fresh sanctions on country
Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has accused the US of seeking to “bomb and invade” the South American country.
Just 10 days ago, he warned Trump to not lead the US into an
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81.
A message from his wife Latifa Chambers on Instagram reads: “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due
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Jair Bolsonaro claims ‘psychotic attack’ made him tamper with ankle monitor
Brazil’s former president says he took a soldering iron to electronic tag as he was hallucinating that it was bugged
Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after having a substance-induced “psychotic attack” that caused him to hallucinate that the device was bugged.
Bolsonaro made the claim during a
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UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight
Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief
The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.
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Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in
Cop30 in Belém wrapped up on Saturday night more than 24 hours later than planned, and with an Amazonian rainstorm thundering down on the conference centre. The UN structure just about held, as it has done these past three weeks despite