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ANTI-CORRUPTION campaigner Zuzana Caputova was sworn in as Slovakia’s first female president on Saturday, vowing to fight impunity and champion justice in a country shaken by a journalist’s murder last year. The community activist, who ran…
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UGANDA has confirmed the death of two people to Ebola disease, one is a 50-year-old woman and her five-year-old grandson on Wednesday and Tuesday respectively. They are the first two cases reported in the country since the World Health…
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NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden Figures". Katherine Johnson, Dorothy…
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THE African Union (AU) has suspended Sudan's membership days after the military launched a brutal crackdown on protesters that killed dozens of people in the country. The AU's Peace and Security Department said in a post on Twitter on…
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DESPITE its absence from the U.S., Huawei retained its ranking as the No. 2 smartphone vendor worldwide and continued to reduce the gap with Samsung research and advisory firm Gartner reported. In a global IT report released on Tuesday by…
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Theresa May on Friday announced that she was resigning from her position as the United Kingdom Prime minister and quitting as the conservative party leader on June 7. The embattled Prime Minister has faced massive criticism for failing to…
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THE World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that Algeria is now free of malaria. Algeria is the second African country to be officially recognised as malaria-free, following Mauritius which was certified in 1973. Alongside Algeria,…
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About 265 accounts were shut down by Facebook for ‘coordinated inauthentic’ accounts that originated in Isreali focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia along with some activity in the Latin America and Southeast Asia.…
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POPE Francis on Thursday issued new global rules for reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, mandating for the first time that all dioceses set up systems for reporting abuse and cover-ups. The new rules require all Catholic…
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BOMB blasts hitting three churches during Easter Sunday service and high-end hotels across Sri Lanka have killed at least 137 people, leaving several injured. According to CNN live updates,  eight explosions have been reported in the…
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