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Trump says Islamic State ‘second in command’ killed by US and Nigerian forces
US president calls Abu-Bilal al-Minuki ‘most active terrorist in the world’ and says he was eliminated in ‘very complex mission’
Donald Trump has said US and Nigerian forces killed the “second in command” global leader of the Islamic State.
“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex
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Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uganda also reports outbreak and health officials say cases were caused by Bundibugyo strain of virus
An outbreak of Ebola has killed 65 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials said.
There have been 246 suspected cases of the haemorrhagic fever reported so far in the conflict-hit
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Mali’s forces target rebel alliance in junta’s fight to keep power
Army supported by Russian mercenaries launches airstrikes after offensive by coalition of Islamist extremists and Tuareg separatists
Mali’s armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, have launched airstrikes targeting a rebel alliance of Islamist extremists and Tuareg separatists as the ruling junta struggles to maintain its hold on power in the unstable west African
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Judge orders Trump administration to return Colombian woman deported to DRC back to the US
Judge called Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata’s deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘likely illegal’
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the US from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after she was deported
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UN pleads for Equatorial Guinea not to send US asylum seekers to their home countries: ‘Their life would be in danger’
Human rights experts make rare public appeal as US deportees describe being held in ‘prison-like’ conditions
Human rights experts at the United Nations issued a rare public appeal to Equatorial Guinea, urging the central African country to halt its plans to return US deportees to their home countries, where they face political violence, torture and death.
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‘Feels like an illusion’: inside post-Maduro Venezuela’s bewildering new era
Four months after Trump’s surprise raid, a political thaw has descended – but mingled with hope is trepidation for what comes next
When Ángel Linares heard a strange buzz followed by an explosion, his first thought was that neighbours were setting off fireworks to celebrate the new year.
Then his windows shattered, the building’s walls shook and its facade was ripped off, sending
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Canada confirms first hantavirus case in isolation in British Columbia
The person was on board the MV Hondius, the center of the outbreak that has claimed three lives
Canadian officials said on Saturday that a test for one of the four Canadians currently quarantining in British Columbia after being exposed to the hantavirus while on board the cruise ship where the outbreak occurred indicated a positive result.
Speaking at a
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Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Trump administration move echoes indictment of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro as fuel crisis racks Cuba
Tensions between Cuba and US seem set to rise further amid reports that
Raúl Castro, the country’s 94-year-old former president, may soon face the type of indictment that led to the US abduction of the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, in January.Although Raúl is
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Weather tracker: Furnace Creek sizzles as snow sweeps Siberia in a week of extremes
Record heat in North and Central America coincides with egg-sized hailstones in eastern China
Extreme weather across several parts of the world this week has brought record-breaking temperatures to Honduras, North America and Indonesia.
Honduras smashed its all-time May maximum temperature record earlier this month – only for it to be broken again on 13 May in Choluteca, known as
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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities