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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Egypt’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Cairo was working with Qatar and Turkey to convince Hamas to accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, and warned the conflict would escalate if the militant group refused.  Speaking at the French Institute of International …

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MAPUTO (Reuters) -Mozambique President Daniel Chapo said on Thursday that the conditions have been met for French energy company TotalEnergies to lift force majeure on its $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Southern African country. TotalEnergies halted work on its Mozambique LNG project in 2021 after an Islamist militant attack. It forecasts …

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By Amindeh Blaise Atabong, Robbie Corey-Boulet and Jennifer Rigby BOGO, Cameroon (Reuters) -Nine-month-old baby Mohamat burned with fever for three days before his family took him to the closest health centre in northern Cameroon, but it was too late. He died of malaria that day. Mohamat’s death was part of a spike this year in …

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MINJAR SHENKORA, Ethiopia (Reuters) -At least 36 people were killed and more than 200 injured at a religious festival in central Ethiopia when wooden scaffolding collapsed underneath them inside a partially constructed church, police and a survivor said. The temporary wooden structure gave way on Wednesday under the weight of worshippers visiting Arerti St Mary’s …

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By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -Two people were killed and others injured in Lqliaa, near Agadir, when security forces used firearms to prevent a group of individuals from stealing their weapons on Wednesday night, local authorities said, in an incident that marks a deadly turn in anti-government protests that initially rallied for social justice reforms. …

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(Fixes typographical error in paragraph 10) By Susan Heavey (Reuters) -Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said on Wednesday. Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a …

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