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More Than 300 Abducted Schoolboys Freed, Nigerian Official Says
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official ...
Africa
2020's Newest Species Include 'World's Ugliest Orchid'
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described ...
Africa
Hundreds Of Religious Leaders Call For LGBTQ 'Conversion Therapy' Ban
LONDON, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Almost 400 global religious leaders, including anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu and Britain’s Bishop of Liverpool, called ...
Africa
Nigerians Anxious After 330 Boys Kidnapped By Extremists
KANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria’s northern village of Kankara who await word on ...
Africa
Hundreds Of Nigerian Students Missing After Attack On School
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police ...
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Trump Wants To Sell A Dictator $23 Billion In Weapons. Here's Where They Could Go.
On the night of Jan. 4, about 50 unarmed cadets ― many of them teenagers ― were practicing drills at a military academy ...
Africa
Egyptian Man Finds Fortune Hunting Scorpions For Venom
CAIRO, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Several years ago, a young Egyptian man abandoned his degree in archaeology to hunt scorpions in the country’s ...
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Biden To Tap Rochelle Walensky To Lead CDC: Reports
President-elect Joe Biden plans to tap Rochelle Walensky, the head of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, as his incoming director of the Centers ...
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U.N. Warns 2021 Is Shaping Up To Be A Humanitarian Catastrophe
NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor ...
Africa
John Boyega, The Actor-Activist, Isn't Afraid To Use His Voice
This year has been absolutely maddening for John Boyega. “I never knew the plot twist could be so mad. I feel like God ...