The death toll from twin attacks in central Somalia has climbed to 48, the leader of Hirshabelle state said Thursday, with Al-Shabaab insurgents claiming they were targeting politicians ahead of elections. The first attack in Hirshabelle’s Beledweyne district was carried out on Wednesday night by a suicide bomber, and killed two local lawmakers including […]
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Teachers’ unions have criticised ZANU PF for disrupting learning in schools by forcing learners to attend rallies, holding political gatherings at school premises and using school buses to transport supporters to rallies. This comes after pupils at Chaminuka Primary School in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza, were on Wednesday forced to attend a ZANU campaign rally […]
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Madeleine Albright, a Czech immigrant who went on to become the first female secretary of state in US history, has died aged 84. A long-time foreign policy veteran, Albright became America’s top diplomat in 1997 during the Clinton government. Often hailed as “a champion of democracy”, Albright was instrumental in efforts to end […]
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Recovery teams have found human remains at the crash site of the China Eastern jet which plunged into mountains this week, say state media. Authorities have yet to declare the number of victims, but there has been no sign so far that any of the 132 people onboard had survived. Investigators still do […]
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BEIJING – A China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) passenger jet with 132 people on board crashed in the mountains of southern China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, China’s Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said. The jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft and […]
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A 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that struck a van in Texas on Tuesday night in a collision that killed nine people, including a college golf coach and six of his players, along with the boy and a man traveling with him, officials said on Thursday. Bruce Landsberg, vice […]
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