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Kenneth who? How Africans are forgetting their history
BBC News 09 May 2021
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy considers what young Africans know about their recent history - and why it is important ... I had posted my birthday greeting to the nonagenarian on social media on 28 April with the tag line ... Many celebrated. Other were astonished, saying ... Egg and milk promise ... .
photo: AP / An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Scores injured in second night of Jerusalem clashes
The Observer 09 May 2021
Clashes have erupted for a second night between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers prayed at the nearby al-Aqsa Mosque. At least 80 people were injured, including a one-year-old, and 14 were taken to hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent said ... Read more ... Photograph ... Photograph ... .
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Drone attack targets military base housing US troops in Iraq
Anadolu Agency 08 May 2021
A booby-trapped drone attack on Saturday targeted the Ain Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq’s Anbar province, an Iraqi security officer told Anadolu Agency ... The officer said the attack did not cause any casualties or material damage in the base which also hosts American forces ... 26, 2018 ... 5, 2020 ... *Writing by Ibrahim Mukhtar in Ankara .
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Has Honduras become a 'narco-state'?
BBC News 09 May 2021
Inside a New York courtroom, the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was known simply as "Co-conspirator 4". Yet being stripped of the deference his position traditionally commands was the least of his concerns. US prosecutors now consider him to be intimately and demonstrably linked to violent drug cartels ... Related Topics. .
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440 arrests made over Capitol riot but FBI still hunting for ‘worst of the worst’
The Independent 08 May 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested approximately 440 people over alleged involvement in the Capitolriots on 6 January, but they are still searching for “the worst of the worst” .
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More than 30 dead, dozens hurt in blast near Afghan girls' school
Gulf News 08 May 2021
Kabul. A blast outside a girls' school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by the Shiite Hazara community on Saturday killed more than 30 people and wounded scores including students, officials said ... "More than 30 students and other countrymen have been killed, and over 50 more were wounded. The toll is rising." ... .
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
Afghans begin burying dead from bloody school blasts that kills 50
The Jakarta Post 09 May 2021
Dozens of young girls were being buried Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year ... Residents were shopping ahead of this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when the blasts occurred ... Topics .. .
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Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison
BBC News 09 May 2021
America's "longest juvenile lifer" recently walked out of prison a free man. Joe Ligon spoke to BBC World Service about spending nearly seven decades in jail, why he waited so long for freedom, and how he intends to spend the rest of his days. "I've never been alone, but I am a loner ... "I had no friends inside ... .
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Australia rethinks China’s 99-year Darwin Port lease
Asiatimes 08 May 2021
How hard is Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison willing to poke the panda? That’s a question posed by the government’s review of the Chinese company Landbridge’s 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin ... At the time, then-US president Barack Obama chided then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for not giving America a heads-up about the deal ... Photo ... ....
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Turkish DM: Greece is creating tensions, our relationship with Egypt scares others
Greek City Times 08 May 2021
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar visited the Command of the Special Forces of his country and in his statements once again blamed Greece for tensions in the Aegean, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Cyprus problem ... Stressing that this attitude is wrong, Akar said that “Greece must understand that it cannot get anywhere like this.” ... .
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Cries of the victims of mass rape go unheard in Ethiopia’s mountain war
The Observer 09 May 2021
The use of rape as a weapon of war is as old as warfare itself. In Bosnia in the 1990s, thousands of Muslim women were brutalised by Bosnian Serb forces, who set up “rape camps” as part of a policy of “ethnic cleansing”. In 2001, the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal redefined mass rape as a crime against humanity ... Photograph. Ben Curtis/AP ... .
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Third arrest in manhunt after Maldives bomb attack
Hindustan Times 09 May 2021
The democracy pioneer and climate activist was seriously hurt after a bomb attack in the capital Male on Thursday night that also injured a British national and two others, which police have blamed on "religious extremists". UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2021 01.27 PM IST ... No further details about the man were released ... ....
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China tries to scupper UN talk on plight of Uighurs
The Guardian 08 May 2021
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Saudi Arabia-Pakistan agree to mend strained ties
Al Jazeera 08 May 2021
Saudi Arabia and longstanding ally Pakistan signed several agreements on Saturday and vowed to revive ties strained by months of disagreement over policy on the Kashmir dispute ... He was greeted by Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the airport before holding talks with Saudi officials at Jeddah’s Al-Salam Palace ... .
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Prince Misizulu named next Zulu king amid family feud
BBC News 08 May 2021
The eldest son of South Africa's late Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has been chosen as successor to the throne, amid a bitter family feud. Prince Misizulu, 46, was named in the will of Zulu Queen Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu - his mother - who died unexpectedly last week ... Prince Misizulu had to be led away from the meeting by armed security ... .
