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Attack on key Libyan airport damages fuel facilities, aircraft
A shelling attack on Saturday on the only operational airport in the embattled Libyan capital of Tripoli hit fuel tanks...
Read moreWuhan market had role in virus outbreak, but more research needed – WHO
A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus...
Read moreCOVID-19: UN donates N38m palliatives to vulnerable Nigerian women
The UN Women says it has donated N38 million to Nigeria in the wake of the coronavirus, to boost palliatives...
Read moreAfrica COVID-19 death toll hits 2,000, total cases rise to 53,000 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO), says COVID-19 cases have risen to over 53,000 in Africa, with 2,000 deaths as at...
Read moreMalawi court rejects President Mutharika’s appeal against new elections
Malawi’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld an earlier ruling by the Constitutional Court which had ordered fresh elections...
Read moreItaly registers more than 30,000 deaths due to coronavirus
Italy registered 30,201 deaths due to the novel coronavirus, after an increase of 240, the Civil Protection Agency reported on...
Read moreVenezuela brings charges against two Americans suspected of coup plot
The Venezuelan attorney general’s office has brought charges against two U.S. citizens arrested for alleged incursion attempts and plans to...
Read moreCivilian casualties in Ukraine conflict at 2-year high, says UN
There was a sharp increase in the number of civilian casualties in early May in the conflict zones in Ukraine,...
Read moreUK’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll tops 30,000
Another 649 COVID-19 patients have died, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in Britain to 30,076, Secretary of State for...
Read moreMacron says coronavirus vaccine must be public property
Any vaccine against the new coronavirus must be considered a “global public good,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at a...
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