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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists.
With its palaces, temples and the 130 metre-high Pharos lighthouse – one of the
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Nigerian state secures release of 100 out of 265 kidnapped schoolchildren
Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappings
Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained
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Troops and warplanes deployed in Benin after ‘failed coup attempt’
West African Ecowas forces sent to country after group of soldiers announced dissolution of government on state TV
West African troops were deployed to Benin on Sunday after what the country’s president described as an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Benin’s president, Patrice Talon, said on Sunday that the situation was “totally under control” after security forces acted to end a coup
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Gunmen kill at least 12 people including three-year-old in hostel in South Africa
Police launch ‘manhunt’ after 25 people are shot in early morning in township attack west of Pretoria
Gunmen have stormed into a hostel in South Africa’s capital and killed at least 12 people, including a three-year-old child, and injured more than a dozen others.
Police said they had launched a “manhunt” for three people and were investigating whether the killings were linked to
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People flee DR Congo fighting one day after peace deal signed in Washington
Hundreds driven into Rwanda as M23 militia battles Congolese army and Burundian soldiers for border town of Kamanyola
Fresh fighting in eastern DR Congo has forced hundreds to flee across the border into Rwanda, a day after a peace deal was signed in Washington DC.
Thursday’s agreement was meant to stabilise the resource-rich east but it has had little visible effect on the ground
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Ex-Honduran president thanks God – and Trump – for drug-trafficking pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández thanked the Lord for being ‘a free man’ and then Trump for ‘changing my life’
Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – in that order – for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by
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Magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes remote area near Alaska-Canada border
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Maduro says the real reason for Trump’s Venezuela fixation is oil – is he right?
The South American country facing a huge US military buildup has almost a fifth of known global reserves
Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, says the real motive behind the massive US
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US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows
Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say
Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the
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US leader of global neo-Nazi terrorist group signals retribution for arrests
Rinaldo Nazzaro says detention of suspected Base members in Spain justifies ‘resistance … by any means necessary’
After Spanish police and Europol’s counter-terrorism section arrested three suspected members of the Base – a globally proscribed neo-Nazi
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