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Sri Lanka Vows Tougher Laws After Wave of Hate Crimes

Sri Lanka's prime minister Wednesday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks...

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Israeli Minister Backs Closing Al-Jazeera Bureau

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that he was in favour of closing the offices of Qatari...

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Israeli Minister Backs Closing Al-Jazeera Bureau

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that he was in favour of closing the offices of Qatari...

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Morocco Jails 25 Protesters Over Rif Protests

A court in Morocco on Wednesday sentenced 25 demonstrators and suspected members of a grassroots protest movement to 18...

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The Migrant Crossroads of Hope… and Broken Dreams

Wild-eyed with matted hair after four days in the searing Sahara sun, Ibrahim Kande climbs out of the pick-up truck he...

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Migrants Dice With Death On Flimsy Boats and In the Desert

Maria gave smugglers all her family savings and crossed three countries and the searing Libyan desert, but when she...

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Video Game Play As Spectator Sport Center-Stage At E3

Long fiercely guarded video game industry terrain, the Electronic Entertainment Expo kicked off on Tuesday with...

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Mali Launches Crackdown On Civil Service Corruption

Mali's anti-corruption office launched a crackdown on tens of thousands of civil servants Tuesday, setting them an end...

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Prof. Allotey Inducted As Fellow of Nigerian Mathematical Society

Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, a renowned Ghanaian Mathematician and Scientist has been inducted as Fellow of...

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Heavy Security At Tamale Teaching Hospital As Gov’t Admits Error In Appointing New Head

There was heavy security at the Tamale Teaching Hospital on Tuesday morning following a clash between some vigilante...

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Cholera Leaves Yemen Hospitals In Constant Code Black

At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or...

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Ghana Records 60,000 Cancer Cases Annually

Dr Joel Yarney, the Head of the Medical Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital,...

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Friend Or Foe? Taiwan’s Disappearing Allies

Panama walking out on its relationship with Taiwan to establish ties with rival China is the latest in a spate of...

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Kweku Baako Vows To Release ‘dirty’ Files On Nana Konadu

Former President Jerry John Rawlings appears to have brought more troubles for his better half with his recent...

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Who’s Afraid of George Soros?

The world has a new puppetmaster. From his New York home, US financier-cum-philanthropist George Soros has manufactured...

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Heavy Rains Kill At Least 35 In Bangladesh

Heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 35 people in southeast Bangladesh, most of them buried under landslides,...

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Ethiopia Sharing $4m Compensation To Victims of Deadly Landslide

Authorities in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have started disbursement of compensation to persons affected by a...

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War-Torn Kabul Becomes A Protected Site For Migratory Birds

A rare Afghan marsh that was once a royal hunting ground is set to come under the official protection of the UN...

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To Europe, Whatever the Risk

Uche's real journey had yet to begin but he had already spent four days in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after...