Labour government lays out its legislative plans as king opens Parliament. The new UK government sets out its plans – with big focus on the country’s ailing economy. On foreign policy, it wants better EU relations, and backing and arming Ukraine will continue. So, what can be expected from Keir Starmer’s government? And what change […]
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Three generations of female rugby players advocate for the sport for women in Dakar. Anna Preira, her mother Leontine and her daughter Mama are three pioneering rugby players who are paving the way for more women to enjoy this sport in Senegal. Rugby is a relatively little-known sport here, especially so for women. Anna played
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Yemeni Houthi rebels have released a video of an attack they claim to have carried out on an oil tanker in the Red Sea. The footage shows a small vessel approach, then collide with the left side of the ship, resulting in a large explosion. BBC Verify has confirmed that the tanker seen in the
Another 200 Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti under a United Nations-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation. The new batch that arrived on Tuesday brings the total to 400 Kenyan boots on the ground in the violence-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian sources said. The Kenyan contingent
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Cinthya Carbajal/AFP/Getty Images Relatives of the passengers wait for news about their loved ones outside the Mariscal Hospital in Ayacucho, Peru, on July 16, 2024. CNN — At least 29 people are dead in Peru after a bus plummeted over 650 feet into a ravine on Tuesday while traveling from the capital Lima to the
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Trump nominated by Republicans two days after assassination attempt. Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential nomination and picked Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate, days after surviving an assassination attempt. With Trump and his Republican Party dominating the news cycle in the United States, there has been less focus on President Joe
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Twenty others injured after bus veered off a cliff in the south-central Andes region of Ayacucho, police official says. A bus crash in Peru’s Andes mountains has killed at least 20 people, a local police colonel has told Peruvian media. Jhonny Rolando Valderrama, head of a highway protection division, told RPP radio that the crash
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week — a step that could destabilize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and trigger more large protests in the community. The announcement followed a landmark Supreme Court order for young religious men to begin enlisting
Police take ‘all necessary security measures’ after the extremely rare act of violence in the sultanate. A shooting near a mosque in Oman killed at least four people and wounded several others in a rare act of violence in the Gulf nation. The attack early on Tuesday took place in Wadi al-Kabir, a district east
The US had announced a humanitarian truce between Kinshasa and the M23 rebel group on July 5. Two children and two teenagers have been killed in a bombardment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources have told AFP news agency. The United States announced a humanitarian truce on July 5 between Kinshasa and
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