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UN provides 5.5 mln USD for drought response in Zambia
LUSAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) on Friday announced an allocation of about 5.5 million U.S. dollars to support Zambia's response to an unprecedented drought that has affected some parts of the country.
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Namibia inaugurates 400kV transmission line
WINDHOEK, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Namibia inaugurated the 400kV Auas-Gerus transmission line on Friday, marking a significant step toward the country's energy security and regional cooperation.
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'I can't breathe': Black man in Ohio tells police before he died, video shows
(Reuters) - Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe" as they pinned him to the floor of a bar and handcuffed him, evoking memories of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
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Support for South Africa's ANC near 40% weeks before election, Ipsos poll shows
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general election that could usher in the biggest political change since the end of the apartheid era.
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Azerbaijan's Aliyev rejects criticism over journalists' arrests
BERLIN (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Friday rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the internet meant press freedom was assured.
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Russia attacks Ukraine's rail lines to disrupt supply of U.S. arms, source says
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia is targeting Ukrainian rail lines with airstrikes to disrupt the delivery of desperately needed U.S. weapons to the front and complicate military logistics, a Kyiv intelligence source said on Friday.
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Andrew Tate human trafficking trial can start, Romania court says
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -The trial of internet personality Andrew Tate on human trafficking charges can go ahead, a Romanian court ruled on Friday, 10 months after he was first indicted, although his representative said he would challenge that decision.
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Ceasefire monitoring centre in Nagorno-Karabakh shuts as Russian peacekeepers withdraw
AGDAM, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - The Russian and Turkish flags were lowered on Friday to mark the closure of a centre set up to monitor a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, as Russian peacekeepers ended a multi-year deployment in the strategic South Caucasus region.
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Supporters of Spain's Sanchez call rallies, leftists abroad urge him to stay
MADRID (Reuters) - Supporters of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prepared on Friday to hold rallies to urge him to stay on after he announced this week he was considering stepping down as a court looks into allegations of business corruption made against his wife.
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Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the deportation plan to now let both nations proceed.
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for air defense systems as allies meet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday called for additional air defense systems to be sent to Kyiv to help protect against Russian strikes, adding that a pause in U.S. funding had helped Moscow seize the initiative.
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Analysis-Trump election subversion case bogs down as allies' legal woes grow
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump got another break when the U.S. Supreme Court signaled some support for his immunity claim, even as more of his allies faced prosecution for the former president's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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Missile launched from Yemen's Houthi area, no injuries reported, CENTCOM says
(Reuters) - One anti-ship ballistic missile was launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen into the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, with no injuries or damage reported by U.S, coalition, or commercial ships, U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Friday.
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Turkish court convicts Syrian woman over Istanbul bombing, media says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, Demiroren news agency (DHA) and other media said.
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Analysis-Arrest of Russian defence minister's deputy may be strike by rival 'clan'
LONDON (Reuters) - Sergei Shoigu, Russia's defence minister, has tried to send a "business as usual" message since his deputy was arrested on a bribery charge. But the widening scandal looks bad for him too, and is seen as a push by a rival clan to dilute his power.
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At Trump trial, Pecker says he killed story of affair even though it cost him
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified on Friday at Donald Trump's criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to help Trump's 2016 presidential bid, even though it would have boosted sales of his tabloid.
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Burkina Faso suspends BBC, VOA radio broadcasts over killings coverage
(Reuters) - Burkina Faso has suspended the radio broadcasts of BBC Africa and the U.S-funded Voice of America (VOA) for two weeks over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, authorities said late on Thursday.
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'Lucky to have him': Australia mourns refugee guard killed in Bondi attack
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed as a hero Pakistani security guard Faraz Tahir, killed in Sydney while trying to stop a mass stabbing attack, in remarks delivered on Friday at a funeral attended by hundreds.
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Trump ready to renew conservative alliance with Hungary's Orban
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Donald Trump is ready to renew a conservative alliance with Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate said in a video message on Friday.
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Kenya Airways accuses Congo of harassment over detained staff
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Kenya Airways on Friday accused the authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of harassment over the continued detention of two of the airline's staff for alleged customs violations despite a court ordering their release.