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Weather tracker: Storm Leonardo continues to batter Europe and northern Africa
Spain and Portugal hit with torrential rain while flash floods in Morocco force more than 100,000 people to evacuate
The Iberian peninsula has been placed under severe weather alerts as Storm Leonardo continues to batter parts of Spain and Portugal with torrential rain and strong winds.
Since Tuesday, the slow-moving system has brought widespread disruption, flooding and
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‘They killed my sons’: chief of Nigerian village where jihadists massacred hundreds recounts night of terror
Umar Bio Salihu, 53, the local head of Woro in Kwara state, says gunmen ‘just came in and started shooting’
The traditional chief of a village in western Nigeria where jihadists massacred residents earlier this week has recounted a night of terror during which the attackers killed two of his
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Gunmen kill more than 160 people in attacks on two west Nigeria villages
Local politician says armed men rounded up residents, bound their hands behind their backs and shot them
More than 160 people have been killed in two villages in western Nigeria in the country’s deadliest armed assaults this year, as communities reel from repeated and widespread acts of violence perpetrated by jihadists and other armed groups.
The death toll from Tuesday’s attacks
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Ugandan opposition leader still in hiding as feud with president’s son escalates
Bobi Wine’s whereabouts unknown since he fled what he said was night raid on his home by police and military
Bobi Wine, Uganda’s most prominent opposition figure, remains in hiding nearly three weeks after a disputed election, as a high-stakes social media feud with the east
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Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities
Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms
In a last message to her friends, Ifunanya Nwangene wrote: “Please come.”
The 26-year-old singer and former contestant on The Voice Nigeria had been bitten by a snake while asleep in her flat in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, and was in
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Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort
Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snails
A button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 of the molluscs.
The greater Bermuda snail (
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China overturns death sentence of Canadian in sign of diplomatic thaw
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018
China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as prime minister Mark Carney seeks to boost trade ties with
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Trump signs proclamation to increase US imports of beef from Argentina
Initial announcement sparked fury from US cattle ranchers as economists say change will have little impact on prices
Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation to hike the US’s low-tariff imports of Argentinian beef, though economists have said the attempt to lower costs for US consumers will likely have little impact on prices.
A White House official said in October that Trump
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Canada and France open Greenland consulates in show of Denmark support
Founding of diplomatic outposts in Nuuk comes after US made efforts to secure control of Arctic island
Canada and France are to open diplomatic
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Cuba open to talks with US ‘without pressure’ after months of Trump threats
Miguel Díaz‑Canel says Cuba is willing to engage Washington amid the island’s deepening economic crisis
After months of threats from Donald Trump, the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has said that his government is willing to talk to the United States, just
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