Year: 2024
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Canada
Pierre Poilievre tries to bait Justin Trudeau into forcing an election over carbon levy increase
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is baiting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an election, as he threatens to introduce a…
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World
Blinken begins latest Middle East tour, set to meet Arab leaders in Cairo
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of the Middle East by holding talks in Saudi Arabia…
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World
More than 100 Palestinians killed in 24 hours
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells US Republican senators Israel will continue the war to defeat Hamas, with one senator saying,…
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Africa
Idris Elba to direct ‘Dust to Dreams,’ upcoming film backed by Nigerian movie powerhouse Mo Abudu
Golden Globe winner Idris Elba has announced that he will be writing and directing an upcoming short film in an…
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World
Israeli Supreme Court temporarily halts plan to return Palestinian hospital patients to Gaza after doctors appeal
Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East…
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Africa
Senegal President Macky Sall rejects blame for election chaos
Senegal’s president has told the BBC he does not regret delaying this year’s elections, a move that sparked deadly protests.…
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Africa
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia head warns ‘no escape’ for clients who profited from glitch
The head of Ethiopia’s biggest commercial bank has told the BBC that customers who withdrew more money than was in…
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Africa
Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes
Civilians caught up in Sudan’s civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street…
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World
Biden administration unveils strictest ever US car emission limits to boost EVs
President Joe Biden has announced the strictest regulation on vehicle exhaust emissions ever enacted in the US in a bid…
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World
Two arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ+ extremism case
Two employees of an LGBTQ+ club in the Russian city of Orenburg have been arrested on suspicion of being members…
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