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Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe’s climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has tested scientific expectations.In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.The world meanwhile …

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Boeing has reached a last-minute settlement to avoid a civil trial that was due to start Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.The Chicago trial was to feature two plaintiffs who lost family members in the calamity, but both cases were settled on Sunday evening, …

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Angry residents vented their frustration at DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday after losing their homes in weekend flash floods in the capital Kinshasa that have killed at least 33 people. Flooding frequently proves deadly in Kinshasa, which sits on the banks of the Congo River, Africa’s second largest after the Nile.Poor maintenance and inadequate …

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict.The Rwandan-backed M23 group has taken swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing and holding the eastern regional capitals Goma and Bukavu, to international condemnation.United …

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Britain’s defence minister on Monday met the family of a young Kenyan mother who was found dead in 2012 after last being seen with a British soldier and stressed the need to “accelerate progress” in the case.The high-profile case caused shock in the east African country and Agnes Wanjiru’s family have long urged the UK …

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The International Criminal Court Monday confirmed the award of 52 million euros to victims of a Ugandan warlord who pressed a brutal reign of terror as part of the Lord’s Resistance Army commanded by fugitive Joseph Kony.Dominic Ongwen, whose nom de guerre was “White Ant”, is currently serving a 25-year jail sentence for 61 charges, …

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Nigeria international Alex Iwobi scored for the first time in 15 matches in all competitions to help Fulham shock Premier League leaders Liverpool 3-2 at the weekend.It was the first goal for the 28-year-old midfielder since January 14, and he played a key role as the Cottagers became only the second side to defeat the …

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Direct flights from two European capitals to a city in a bitterly disputed north African territory have become the latest battleground in the conflict between a rebel group and Morocco.Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades …

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Boeing is poised to face a jury trial from Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the first civil case related to the disaster to reach court.The Chicago trial, expected to last two weeks, was to feature two plaintiffs who lost family members in the calamity. But one of the …

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Thousands of people gathered in Bamako on Sunday for the funeral of Malian music star Amadou Bagayako — of the blind husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam — two days after his death at the age of 70.The Grammy-nominated blind guitarist and singer died on Friday afternoon following an illness, leaving behind his widow Mariam Doumbia, …

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