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(Adds quotes, detail) LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson on Tuesday urged lawmakers to back a major element of the new deal over post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, adding it was a good deal amid criticism from some Conservatives. An influential group of eurosceptic […]

Thousands are rallying against last year’s election result and economic woes At least one person has been shot dead as police crack down on demonstrators in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Thousands have heeded the call for nationwide protests by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who claims that Kenya’s last election was stolen. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and for the first time has shown that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick. The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms […]

CAIRO (AP) — Turkey’s chief diplomat was in Cairo on Saturday for talks with Egyptian officials as the regional powers seek to mend their frayed ties after years of tensions. Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, landed in the Egyptian capital early Saturday. He was the highest ranking Turkish official to […]

A man collects some wood on a flooded street near Quelimane, as the storm Freddy hits Mozambique, 12 March 2023 Malawi, Madagascar and Mozambique are reeling from the effects of Tropical Cyclone Freddy. More than 400 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed. Freddy has been one of […]

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police issued a terror threat warning Thursday for Vienna, saying there was an “abstract” danger for Syrian institutions in the city. The alert came a day after police in Austria’s capital warned of ” a possible “Islamist-motivated attack” on churches and other houses of worship, citing […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host Syrian leader Bashar Assad for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday that are expected to focus on rebuilding Syria after a devastating civil war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the two leaders would talk about “postwar reconstruction and the […]

The storm has destroyed transport infrastructure including roads and bridges At least 99 people have died in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month. Terrifying amounts of brown water have cascaded through neighbourhoods, sweeping away homes. Malawi’s commercial hub, Blantyre, has […]

Ethiopian Jews in Israel have long integrated but many still suffer discrimination Israel’s education minister has apologised to Ethiopian Israeli schoolgirls whose teachers mocked them in a WhatsApp group on a school trip. The girls spotted the teachers messaging each other in a chat group they created called Black School […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has affected millions across the country — including plans to meet a third of the country’s electricity demands using renewable energy. Climate change for years has compounded the woes of the troubled country. Droughts […]