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Police say 350-400 people have stayed in Stilfontein mine to avoid arrest after minister vowed to ‘smoke them out’South African authorities are assessing whether it is safe to rescue potentially thousands of illegal miners who may be trapped underground, after police stop...
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Group were held after a meeting about what mining firm referred to as unsubstantiated claims regarding taxes and leviesAn Australian goldmining company has agreed to pay $160m ($A247m, £126m) to Mali’s government after the west African country’s junta detained its chief e...
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Images released by MSF doctors highlight impact of conflict in the country, with medical supplies and aid unable to reach people due to fightingA series of X-rays showing a piece of shrapnel buried deep inside a 20-month-old girl’s head and a bullet embedded in an 18-mont...
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Rights group says Abdallah Said’s case is a troubling first for the country amid president’s increasing crackdownTunisian anti-terrorist investigators are handling the case of a leading advocate for migrants who has been taken into custody, in what the head of a rights gr...
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Chidimma Adetshina crowned Miss Universe Africa and Oceania after she was stripped of South African identity documentsBeauty queen Chidimma Adetshina’s second place in this year’s Miss Universe competition was not only an occasion for Nigerians to rejoice at their highest...
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Scientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaksThe teenager hospitalized with bird flu in British Columbia, ...
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Activists condemn law and liken it to civil society crackdowns in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Hungary and RussiaOpposition parties and human rights organisations in Paraguay have condemned an “alarmi...
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Tehran alleged to have targeted retired politician, 84, who is also human rights activist and critic of IranCanadian authorities foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate a former justice min...
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US president arrived for photograph with other world leaders – but found they had gone ahead without himJoe Biden headed for a photo with fellow ...
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Summit’s first day notable for frosty meeting of far-right Argentinian leader Javier Milei and leftwing hostThe president of Brazil, ...