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South Africa authorities rounded up 95 Libyans in a raid Friday at a farm that appeared to have been converted into a military training base, police said. The early morning raid was near the town of White River in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, about 360 kilometers (220 miles) east
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Search teams were still digging at the site of deadly mudslides in southern Ethiopia on Friday, as the death toll rose to 257, according to the UN humanitarian office. Heavy rain triggered deadly slides on Sunday and Monday in a remote part of the country. The UN humanitarian office, known
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Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by US authorities in Texas on Thursday, the US Justice Department said. A leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel for decades alongside Joaquín “El Chapo”
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Authorities evacuated nearly 300,000 people and suspended public transport across eastern China on Friday, as Typhoon Gaemi brought torrential rains already responsible for five deaths in nearby Taiwan. Gaemi was the strongest typhoon to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfall on Thursday, flooding parts of the
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The Philippine Coast Guard planned Friday to deploy oil dispersant and floating barriers a day after a tanker carrying 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel sank off Manila AFP journalists at the Port of Limay in Bataan province watched coast guard personnel preparing equipment for a boat to be
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The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has risen to 257, and is expected to rise to 500, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Thursday. On Tuesday, Ethiopia’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission had put the death toll at 229. Following
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Relatives of the 18 dead in an airplane crash in Nepal have yet to hear from the government or the airline on the possible cause of the disaster, they said a day after the small jet went down during take-off at the airport in Katmandu, the capital. The incident has
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Carrying backpacks and small children, hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police Thursday, the latest group of migrants and homeless people to be driven out of the city ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. The group of largely
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Britain’s former minister for veterans has “provided further information” to a public inquiry into claims of war crimes by special forces in Afghanistan, a spokeswoman said Thursday, after he was threatened with jail. Johnny Mercer has said that “multiple officers” told him about alleged murders and a subsequent cover-up
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Belgian police have conducted 14 house searches in a terrorism investigation, the federal public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday, adding seven people were taken in for questioning. “They are suspected, among other things, of preparing a terrorist attack. The specific targets of the attack had not yet been determined,
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School summer holidays will be extended by two weeks in southern Pakistan because of high temperatures, affecting more than 100,000 schools, an education official said Tuesday. Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather conditions resulting from climate change, including heatwaves that are hotter and more frequent and monsoons that
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Dutch judges on Wednesday turned down a lawsuit calling for a submarine deal between the Netherlands and France to be revised, saying there was “no reason” to further investigate the multi-billion-euro agreement. The Netherlands in March picked French defense company Naval Group and its Dutch partner Royal IHC to build
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A Spanish court on Tuesday sentenced a pensioner to 18 years in prison over letter bombs sent to Spain’s prime minister and the US and Ukrainian embassies in 2022. Pompeyo Gonzalez Pascual — who opposed Western support for Ukraine following Russia’s February 2022 invasion — was found guilty of terrorism
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Around 5,000 people were forced to leave the western Canadian town of Jasper early on Tuesday to escape approaching wildfires, the latest victims of what experts say could be one of the worst-ever seasons for fires. “This is an evolving emergency situation ... we will provide more information as it
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Britain’s new Labour government will end the use of the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge to house migrants off the south coast of England as part of its overhaul of the asylum system, it said on Tuesday. Use of the vessel, which can house up to 500 men, began under
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French security forces guarding sites set to be used in the Paris Olympics are intercepting an average of six drones per day, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said. The miniature flyers are sometimes operated by “individuals, maybe tourists wanting to take pictures,” Attal said. “That’s why it’s important to