DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s new authorities have detained an Egyptian Islamist militant who fought against Bashar al-Assad’s rule over threats he made to the government in Cairo, a Syrian interior ministry source and an Arab security source told Reuters on Wednesday. The move could help ease concern in Cairo over the rise to power of …
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STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of operations, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters at the scene on Wednesday. (Reporting by Nellie Peyton; Writing by Tannur Anders; Editing by Alexander Winning)
MORONI (Reuters) – The ruling party in the Comoros won decisively in parliamentary elections this week, the electoral commission said, but opposition parties either boycotted the vote or rejected the results, claiming fraud. The Independent National Election Commission (CENI) announced late on Tuesday that the ruling party had secured 28 out of 33 parliamentary seats …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has temporarily closed a key border crossing with Botswana due to heavy rainfall and flooding, the country’s border authority said. The Grobler’s Bridge crossing in northern South Africa is used for trade, especially by miners in the Copperbelt region straddling Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo moving cargo to …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of the disease was declared over in neighbouring Rwanda. The viral hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate as high as 88%, and is from …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The U.N. Libya mission expressed on Tuesday its alarm over what it said was footage circulating on social media featuring “brutal torture and ill-treatment” of detainees at the Gernada detention facility in eastern Libya. Reuters was not able to independently verify the location nor date of the footage, however architectural details seen on …
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(Reuters) – Women’s marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich will race the London Marathon in April, the Kenyan said, adding that she expects a new record could be set in Britain’s capital. The 30-year-old Chepngetich set a new world record and became the first woman to run under two hours and 10 minutes with a …
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DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned what it called “individual violations” in Sudan’s El Gezira in recent days after rights groups blamed the army and its allies for ethnically-targeted attacks on civilians. The attacks largely targeted people from western Sudan living in the central state because of accusations they collaborated with the …
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By Nellie Peyton and Siyabonga Sishi STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of operations, police said on Tuesday, adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges. Police began laying siege to the …
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(Reuters) – The African Nations Championship (CHAN) has been postponed just weeks before it was due to kick off in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the Confederation of African Football said on Tuesday. The 19-team tournament is for national teams made up of home-based players only and was due to kick off on Feb. 1 but …
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