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Malawi vice president Chilima and nine others killed in plane crash

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed when the military plane they were travelling in crashed, President Lazarus Chakwera said.

June 12, 2024 8:14 am
 

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Hamas says it accepts UN-backed Gaza truce plan

Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details.

June 12, 2024 7:24 am
 

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Four US college instructors stabbed in public park in China

Four US university tutors, are in hospital after they were stabbed by an unknown assailant at a public park in China.

June 11, 2024 5:13 pm
 

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France's far-right National Rally projected to win snap election

The far-right National Rally was forecast to win a snap election in France but fall short of an absolute majority in the first opinion poll published after President Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to dissolve parliament.

June 11, 2024 4:01 pm
 

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Singapore Airlines offers compensation to passengers on severely turbulent flight

Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI), opens new tab has sent offers of compensation to passengers on board a flight last month that encountered severe turbulence that led to dozens of injuries and one death, the carrier said.

June 11, 2024 3:09 pm
 

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James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95

James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw discrimination in the U.S., died at 95, his family said.

June 11, 2024 1:32 pm
 

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Search continues for missing aircraft carrying Malawi vice president

Search and rescue operations will continue until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is found, the southern African nation’s president said late.

June 11, 2024 12:44 pm
 

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Amnesty International says Nigerian army detains girls who escape from Boko Haram

Amnesty International accused the Nigerian army of illegally detaining girls and young women who have escaped from Boko Haram captivity because the military believes they support the Islamist insurgent group.

June 11, 2024 11:50 am
 

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California public university academics end pro-Palestinian strike

Thousands of University of California academic workers who went on strike at six campuses protesting administrators’ response to pro-Palestinian protests returned to the job under court order, but their union vowed more protests to come.

June 11, 2024 10:51 am
 

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Haiti PM condemns killing of police officers in gang ambush

Haiti’s new prime minister on Monday condemned the gang killings of three police officers on a patrol in a part of the capital controlled by gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier.

June 11, 2024 9:41 am
 

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Aircraft carrying Malawi vice president missing

An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others has gone missing, Malawi’s presidency said.

June 11, 2024 7:15 am
 

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Trump tells sweltering rally in Nevada he won't tax tips

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday that he would seek to end taxation of income from tips, a direct appeal to service workers in the swing state of Nevada, which polls suggest is leaning his way ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

June 10, 2024 10:34 am

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