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Sierra Leone President sacks minister after deadly unrests

Country hit series of riots in the last two weeks resulting in over a dozen and a half deaths.




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Covid-19: Kenya cases rise to 649 as 28 more test positive - VIDEO

Kenya reports a total of 649 cases, 207 recoveries and 30 deaths.




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Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider, pioneer of electronic music, dies at 73

The co-founder of electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider, has died at the age of 73 from cancer, the managers of the group announced Wednesday.The ...




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Study guides flying off shelves amid coronavirus school closures

Sales of study guides went up in March, according to news reports. Take a look at the vocabulary for studying at home and sales.




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Table tennis star Mima Ito taking Tokyo 2020 delay in stride

Table tennis star Mima Ito was disappointed by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, because it took away the chance ...




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Only Tokyo residents getting ‘Abenomasks’ despite extended virus emergency

The rest of Japan is scheduled to get theirs by the end of the month — when the emergency is set to end.




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Japanese government, criticized for low testing rates, eases guidelines for seeking virus tests

Anyone with four days of mild cold symptoms is now being encouraged to consult a public health center about getting tested.




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New details on Masaka shooting incident emerge

Musasizi, who was riding a motorcycle, had come to pick up Nagasha who was in Byansi Clinic located along Elgin Street in Masaka town, for a pregnancy test




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Guide to using a planter for that bumper harvest

Check and lubricate all chains and sprockets, grease all the necessary points. Then later check and grease all the bearings, writes Denis Bbosa




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South Africa: Lockdown - Western Cape ANC Calls on Province to Consider Going Back to Level 5

[News24Wire] As the Western Cape ramps up its screenings and testing for Covid-19 as confirmed cases rise, the ANC in the province is calling for the return to Level 5 lockdown to be considered.




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Somali President Orders Probe Into Bardale Air Crash

[Nation] The Federal Government of Somalia started an investigation into a plane that crashed on Monday near the airstrip of Bardale town in Bay region, about 275 kilometres southwest of the capital Mogadishu.




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Amisom Welcomes the Decision By the Governments of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia to Investigate Plane Crash Incident in Bardale

[Dalsan Radio] The African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families of those who perished in the plane crash of 4th May, 2020. The aircraft which left Baidoa, had six people on board and was approaching Bardale, south of Somalia and 300km northwest of the capital Mogadishu when it crashed.




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Premier league split widening

The split in the Premier League has now become so pronounced that some figures have a name they share for the bottom six: 'Project Sabotage'.




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Trust teachers: The idea at heart of this year's exams

In normal times such a decision - to require teachers to judge their own students for such a high stakes process as the Leaving Certificate exams - would have caused uproar, striking terror in the hearts of many teachers, and also students and parents. But these are not normal times.



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Coronavirus death toll passes 275,000 worldwide

Follow all the latest developments regarding Covid-19, around the world and at home, as they happen.




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Where Biden would break from Trump on Israel


Biden has made no secret of his opposition to the Trump peace plan.




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German monitor: antisemitic incidents have increased since Halle shooting


In the Halle attack, two people were killed near the synagogue when the alleged gunman could not enter the building.




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Ogen appeals to provide state-backed loans to struggling businesses


Enabling Jerusalem-based Ogen to grant government-backed loans will enable financial assistance characterized by a higher level of risk than the traditional banking system is willing to accept.




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Katie Miller, Stephen Miller’s wife and Pence aide, diagnosed coronavirus


News of Miller’s positive test delayed Pence’s scheduled departure Friday to Des Moines, Iowa, for more than an hour, and several staffers who had been in contact with her left the plane.




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US Orthodox Union issues guidelines on post-coronavirus reopening


The new guidelines focus on 13 principles that are designed to guide the decisions and planning of synagogues and communities throughout the United States.




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[WATCH] Child takes hunter’s shotgun in Miżieb hide, proving lax controls on illegalities

BirdLife video of illegal hunting in Malta sent to European Commission




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Frank Portelli cannot decide St Philip's Hospital fate alone, court appoints administrators

Commercial Court rules that St Philip's Hospital owner Frank Portelli cannot decide the hospital's fate on his own as HSBC Bank seeks repayment of €11.5 million in loans, appoints two provisional administrators




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Judge rejects Yorgen Fenech request for continuation of compilation of evidence

Court turns down alleged Caruana Galizia assassination mastermind's request to have compilation of evidence continue 




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Danon to 'Post': UNSC must consider outcome of ending Iran arms embargo


Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said that the Iranian regime continues to divert its national resources in favor of its terror ambitions.




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VIDEOS: Iran's National Instruments Orchestra Pays Tributes to COVID-19 Healthcare Staff

With the aim of expressing appreciation for the medical staff from around globe, the Iran's National Instruments Orchestra performed ";The Avicenna Suite"; by maestro Farhad Fakhreddini. The work has been recorded and edited by cell phone at home.




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Trump blasts Republicans who voted for Iran war powers bill as Senate fails to override veto

President Donald Trump laid into some of his close Senate allies for siding with Democrats on an Iran war powers bill even as Congress failed to override his veto.




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British-Australian academic held in Iranian prison reportedly attempts suicide

Kylie Moore-Gilbert is among the many foreigners held in Iran's notorious Evin prison on espionage charges.




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TEST YOURSELF: Rollercoaster ride

Would you go on the run with your ex?




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Two die, three injured in Kohistan road accident

MANSEHRA: Two persons were killed and three others sustained injuries when a pickup vehicle plunged into a ravine in Shahshi Gigal area of Lower Kohistan on Friday.The vehicle was on way to Kokai from Gijal when it met to accident while negotiating a sharp turn.The local rushed to scene and...




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Didi boss Jean Liu says core business profitable, as China’s ride-hailing market recovers from Covid-19

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing’s core business has been profitable, president Jean Liu Qing said for the first time, as ride orders in its domestic market recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.In a rare interview, Liu told the CNBC that Didi’s core business has been profitable, without providing specific figures or explaining how or when the company had measured its profitability. The company has no plans for job cuts or raising capital, Liu said in the interview that…




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Coronavirus: Two antibodies identified for potential drug treatment by Chinese scientists

Chinese scientists say they have identified two antibodies that could be candidates for a cocktail treatment for patients with different strains of the coronavirus.The antibodies were found to work together as a team to prevent the virus from latching onto a host cell, in a study led by Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention director George Fu Gao with collaborators from across the country.They said that even a mutant strain was likely to be neutralised because the antibodies…




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Inside China Tech: China’s business (and smog) comes back

Good morning, this is Melissa Zhu from the SCMP tech desk in Hong Kong with a wrap of some of our best stories from this week.First, the bad news. After Wuhan lifted its lockdown in early April and Beijing downgraded its emergency response level last month, satellite images and air quality index (AQI) data are showing a return of air pollution to parts of China, as Coco Feng reports.China's air quality had improved in recent months as result of recent lockdowns and industrial stoppages related…




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WeChat surveils international accounts to decide what to censor for Chinese users, study says

WeChat, the Chinese messaging app, is systematically monitoring the content sent by international users to build up its censorship algorithms applied against accounts registered in China, a new study has found.Researchers at Citizen Lab, an academic research lab at the University of Toronto, determined that WeChat screens images and documents shared by accounts registered outside China after they are sent, then adds the digital signature – or “hash” – of any files deemed sensitive to a…




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Justice Department drops criminal case against ex-Donald Trump aide Michael Flynn

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein on politico.com on May 7, 2020.The US Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, throwing in the towel on one of the most prominent cases brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his dealings with the Russian ambassador to the US.But…




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Joe Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade calls on him to quit US presidential race

Former US Senate aide Tara Reade said on Thursday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should acknowledge her claim that he sexually assaulted her is true and quit the 2020 presidential race.“You and I were there, Joe Biden. Please step forward and be held accountable. You should not be running on character for the president of the United States,” Reade said during her first on-camera interview since Biden appeared on MSNBC last week and denied her accusation for the first…




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Trump ‘not worried’ about coronavirus spread in White House after vice-president’s aide tests positive

US Vice-President Mike Pence’s press secretary has the coronavirus, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.President Donald Trump, who publicly identified the affected Pence aide on Friday, said he was “not worried” about the virus spreading in the White House. Nonetheless, officials said they were stepping up safety protocols for the complex.US reversal scuppers UN vote on global coronavirus ceasefirePence spokeswoman…




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India eases coronavirus lockdown, leading to brawls outside liquor stores

Violence and chaos marred India’s first day of freedom from its stringent virus lockdown as migrant workers clashed with police in western India and brawls erupted outside liquor shops in the national capital.The country on Monday partially eased movement curbs across all but the worst infection-hit areas in an attempt to restart its stalled economy. Liquor shops, closed for 40 days under the strict stay-at-home orders, also reopened allowing state governments to earn some much-needed tax…




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China, Australia decoupling labelled ‘zombie economic idea’ amid coronavirus fallout

Calls for Australian businesses to diversify away from China as their main trading partner are nothing more than a “zombie economic idea” that is being used as a political tool to expedite the decoupling of the two countries, according to a report by the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney.The debate about Australia’s over-dependence on China for its livelihood has ramped up recently, triggered by the interruption of supply chains during China’s…




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India’s LG Chem plant widens evacuation area after deadly toxic gas leak

Indian officials evacuated more people on Friday from the area around a chemical plant in the south of the country that leaked toxic gas, killing at least 12 people and left about 1,000 struggling to breathe.There was confusion about whether the wider evacuation orders were sparked by a renewed leak at the LG Chem factory in Andhra Pradesh, or by the fear that rising temperatures at the plant could lead to another leak.“No, there was not another leakage,’’ National Disaster Response Force…




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Malaysian politics heats up with Mahathir’s no-confidence vote against Muhyiddin‘s ‘back-door government’

Malaysia’s politics took another dramatic turn on Friday ahead of its first parliamentary sitting in months as the speaker of the house accepted a motion by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to launch a no-confidence vote against his replacement, Muhyiddin Yassin.Mahathir, however, has conceded that he does not believe he has the numbers required to command the majority support of parliament, claiming that Muhyiddin had won over supporters by giving them government roles. “Maybe we will…




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How Singapore’s president spoke up for home businesses amid pressure to ease tighter circuit breaker rules

Picka.treatsg, an online business operating out of a Singapore public flat, saw an increase in orders of its cakes late last month, after the authorities announced commercial snack and drinks outlets would have to temporarily stop operating.This came amid tighter restrictions during Singapore’s circuit breaker or partial lockdown period, and just before the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.Singapore moves nursing-home employees into hotels to protect elderlyWith orders growing from…




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My 11,000 tilapia and catfish side hustle

Enos Odongo is a building contractor, but on the side, he runs a fish farm as he seeks to cash in on rising demand for the produce




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Vet on call: To cull or not to cull cow? All the points to consider

Age, milk output and breed are some of factors to keep in mind as you choose to reduce your herd




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Why Old Town residents see Joho, Nassir as enemies

To win back the public's favour, the leaders must ensure essential services are provided.




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It’s time we rethought our idea of monogamy

Some people are just built differently. Some people are poor at compromising.




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Residents feel the pinch of Eastleigh lockdown

Amoth warns those plotting to sneak out of the region, saying they will worsen the situation.




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Sierra Leone president accuses opposition of 'terrorizing' state

A series of deadly unrests in the last two weeks that have claimed nearly two dozen lives.




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Covid-19: Kenya cases rise to 649 as 28 more test positive - VIDEO

Kenya reports a total of 649 cases, 207 recoveries and 30 deaths.




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Coronavirus: four new infections in Hong Kong, all involving residents returning from Pakistan

Hong Kong recorded four new coronavirus infections on Thursday, all involving returnees from Pakistan the previous night, as the city prepared to bring back more residents stranded in South Asia.The diagnoses ended a two-day streak without any new cases, and takes the city’s total number of confirmed infections to 1,044.Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable diseases branch of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP), said the patients in question, aged between 11 and 47, all returned to…




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Hong Kong lawmakers on both sides mull reporting rivals to police after Legislative Council row turned physical

Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide are considering whether to report their rivals to police after a row in Hong Kong’s legislature over control of a key committee descended into chaos in the chamber.Two opposition legislators revealed on Saturday they planned to make formal allegations of assault, while the pro-establishment camp was mulling filing complaints of its own to the force.It follows a turbulent meeting of the Legislative Council’s House Committee on Friday, when a pro…