Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, officials and witnesses say. Victor Foh, vice president of the West African country, has said many people are

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At least 24 people have been shot by police in violence during Kenya’s disputed election, according to Kenyan human-rights observers, including many killed in protests in opposition strongholds after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory late Friday.

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North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam with missiles. The threat followed warning by US President Donald Trump that any threat to the

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Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who overcame a troubled childhood to top the charts with an angry but melodic brand of metal, was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide. He was 41. “Shocked and

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A disgruntled doctor, Dr Henry Bello, a family physician who was fired from his job  at a Bronx hospital in 2015, hid a high powered rifle under a lab coat and had his ID with

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  Michael Adebolajo, a Nigerian Islamist extremist who murdered British soldier  Fusilier Lee Rigley in London, is now regarded as the most dangerous prisoner in the British penal system, officials say. The 31-year-old who is

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The Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Mosque in Al Mushrif, a district in the capital Abu Dhabi, has been renamed ‘Mariam, Umm Eisa’ — Arabic for ‘Mary, the mother of Jesus’,. The change was ordered by

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Seven people have been killed and dozens injured during attacks in two closely connected areas of London on Saturday night. The police are treating the attacks as terrorist incidents. Police were called after a white

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Ireland’s ruling party, Fine Gael, has elected Leo Varadkar as its new leader on Friday. Varadkar, a renowned gay, 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant, will become the youngest person ever to hold the office.

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Heavy gunfire again erupted on Monday in Ivory Coast’s two largest cities, Abidjan and Bouake, witnesses said, as the military pressed an operation aimed at ending a four-day nationwide army mutiny over bonus payments. Loyalist

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