Lebanese protesters tried to storm central bank offices in two major cities on Saturday
The pound has been pegged to the dollar at 1,507 since 1997, but the country’s worst economic crisis in decades
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Australia’s largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown Saturday to contain a sudden coronavirus
Britain’s health minister meanwhile resigned after revelations that he had broken the government’s own coronavirus restrictions during an affair with
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Activists in Mali stage protest against French military presence in Bamako
Some waved Russian flags and held banners calling for greater cooperation between Mali and Russia. The demonstration organised by political
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Electric car giant Tesla will “recall” over 285,000 cars from the Chinese market after an investigation found issues
Tesla would contact affected users to upgrade their vehicle’s software remotely for free, a State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR)
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria will continue its frontline advocacy for a ‘just transition’ to net-zero emissions
Net-zero emissions is aimed at completely negating the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activities; it is to be
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Qatari runner Abdalelah Haroun, who won a bronze medal at the 2017 world championships, died Saturday
“Haroun died in a car accident in Doha,” the federation’s secretary-general, Mohammed Issa al-Fadala, told AFP. “He was in a
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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has granted clemency to more than 5,000 prisoners
To mark a Shiite religious holiday, a statement on his official website said Saturday The statement gave no details of
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Demonstrators clashed with police in Dakar on Friday, as they protested against a draft anti-terrorism law
Security forces were deployed outside the National Assembly, where the law was being debated, and at various points in the
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Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville leads the Safari Rally Kenya despite suffering a puncture on Friday’s final stage
Championship leader Sebastien Ogier is languishing in seventh after a disappointing morning session. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville opened up a 5.1 second at
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Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd
The white, 45-year-old Chauvin gave his “condolences” to the Floyd family in a Minneapolis court before Judge Peter Cahill handed down a
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