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At least 31 people died and more than 500 were arrested in anti-government protests across Kenya on Monday, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) said…
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Why small-time criminals burned a London warehouse for Russia’s mercenary group Wagner
Daniel SandfordUK correspondent
Metropolitan PoliceSecurity cameras captured the fire at the warehouse Just before midnight on 20 March last year, two small-time criminals from south London set alight a warehouse containing vital communications…
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Immortalised in Graham Greene’s novel The Comedians, destroyed by gang violence : NPR
Main entry to the Hotel Oloffson, built as a private residence by Simon Sam in about 1886. American Marines leased it and…
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Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds | US military
A new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to…
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A look at the countries that received tariff letters from Trump
President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 countries Monday outlining higher tariffs they’ll face if they don’t make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1.
In the letters, which were posted on Truth Social, Trump warned…
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Russian minister’s death serves as warning to political elite
It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.
On Monday morning, President Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.
By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound…
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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women
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The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan.
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ICC warrants issued for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on charges of persecuting…
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It’s More Jurassic Park Than Lord of the Rings, but Peter Jackson Is Trying to Resurrect a Giant Bird That Went Extinct 600 Years Ago — the Celebrated Director Tells Us Why
While Peter Jackson is busy working on the new Lord of the Rings movie, The Hunt for Gollum, he’s also pursuing something very different indeed: the resurrection of extinct animals. In an exclusive interview with IGN, below, he tells us why.
The…
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