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Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy says military will ‘destroy’ Tigray rebels
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his soldiers would “destroy” rebels from the northern Tigray region, in the latest instalment of footage ...Burkina Faso police fire tear gas at protest against militant violence
Police fired tear gas in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday during a demonstration against the government’s failure to stop a wave of ...Twenty-seven migrants perish trying to cross Channel to Britain
British and French officials traded blame on Wednesday after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they made a perilous crossing ...New Swedish PM resigns on first day in job, hopes for swift return
Sweden’s first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, resigned on Wednesday after less than 12 hours in the top job after ...Chile’s lower house approves same-sex marriage, bill sent back to Senate
Chile’s lower house approved on Tuesday a bill that would permit same-sex marriage in the South American country of 19 million, sending ...Number of children recruited into conflict grows in West and Central Africa
West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited into conflict of any region in the world, and the ...Hamas official says Qatar enables fuel-to-cash scheme for Gaza civil servants
A Hamas official said on Monday that Qatar will start sending Gaza up to $10 million worth of Egyptian fuel a month ...Sudan’s military to reinstate ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok
Sudan’s military plans to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and release all political detainees under a deal to end weeks of deadly ...Further unrest in Netherlands amid Covid protests
Five police officers were injured in the Netherlands and at least 40 people detained across three provinces as violent protests against COVID-19 ...Vietnam’s resort island welcomes first tourists after nearly 2 yrs
Two hundred vaccinated foreign tourists arrived in Vietnam’s beach-fringed island of Phu Quoc on Saturday, the first wave of visitors to the ...














