ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed two policemen in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa in a shootout after they responded to a distress call over an abduction, a police spokesman said on Monday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of northern Nigeria in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and perpetrating mass kidnappings for ransom. A resident […]
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An Australian man has pleaded guilty to abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith and holding her at his home for 18 days. © Wa police Police released a photo of Cleo Smith after her rescueCleo vanished from her family’s tent while on a camping trip in Western Australia last October. Her disappearance gripped the country and sparked a
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Crush took place as Cameroon beat Comoros 2-1 in Yaounde. Dozens more were reported to have been injured and were taken to a nearby hospital. African soccer authorities ‘investigating’ incident © Provided by DW Cameroon’s progress at the African Cup of Nations was overshadowed by a stampede outside the stadium that killed at least six people
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By Margaret Davis and Sophie Corcoran A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly mowing down a knife attacker who had stabbed a woman in the street. The driver ran over a 41-year-old man in Maida Vale, west London at around 9am on Monday in an apparent bid to stop the
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For two years, Bulgaria has blocked North Macedonia’s bid to open accession talks with the EU because of a historical row. But with new governments in Skopje and Sofia, there is hope that compromise can be reached. © Reg. Nordmazedonien Dimitar Kovacevski (right), prime minister of North Macedonia, greets Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov (left) in
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The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on Monday described how the devastating Pacific blast “messed up our brains”. The NASA Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano spewed debris as high as 40 kilometres (25 miles) into the
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A musician onboard a luxury cruise liner that diverted to the Bahamas to avoid a US arrest warrant over unpaid fuel bills says its 700 crew and passengers were shocked to learn the vessel was fleeing “like a pirate ship”. © Getty ImagesA US court issued an arrest warrant for the Crystal Symphony cruise ship
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A 67-year-old British woman who planned to return to Britain with her 80-year-old French husband after 30 years in France has told how Home Office delays have left them waiting almost a year for the Brexit paperwork they need to set foot in the country. © AP Britain’s departure from the EU has left thousands of
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© Reuters/El Tayeb Siddig FILE PHOTO: People attends a protest in Khartoum KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Three demonstrators were killed on Monday when Sudanese security forces fired live rounds and teargas during protests against military rule that attracted tens of thousands of people across the country, medics said. Such protests, along with barricades throughout the capital and a
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A group of lab monkeys who escaped from a lorry crash in the US state of Pennsylvania have now been found after an urgent hunt by the authorities. Several of the monkeys had escaped when a lorry carrying a trailer of 100 of them crashed on Friday. By Saturday, one of the cynomolgus macaque monkeys was still at
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