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Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday parade cancelled for second year
Queen Elizabeth The annual military parade in central London for Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday has been cancelled for a second year owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Buckingham Palace said
Joe Biden stumbles multiple times as he boards Air Force One
US President Joe Biden on Friday lost his footing and tripped multiple times while walking up the steps to Air Force One. The American leader, 78, had proceeded swiftly about
Finland again ranks world’s happiest country despite pandemic
Covid-19 has done little to alter the ranking of the world’s happiest countries, with Finland at the top for a fourth year running, an annual UN-sponsored report said on Friday.
9 children, 10 others die in Madagascar after eating turtle
Image representation Nineteen people, nine of them children, have died from food poisoning in Madagascar after eating a turtle, sources said Thursday. Thirty-four people were hospitalised on Monday in Vatomandry,
Tanzania swears in first female president after Magufuli’s sudden death
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61,
Navalny allies to stay under house arrest until mid-summer
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is accused of slandering a Russian World War Two veteran, gestures as he stands inside a defendant dock during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia,
‘Takes one to know one’: Putin mocks Biden over ‘killer’ comment
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked Joe Biden for calling him a “killer” — saying “it takes one to know one” — as ties between Moscow and Washington sank
Sudan gets initial approval for mediation in dam dispute
Sudan said Thursday it had received initial approval for international mediation in Khartoum’s and Cairo’s decade-long dispute with upstream Ethiopia over its controversial Blue Nile mega-dam project. Last month, Khartoum
Women presidents in Africa
Africa map. As Tanzania’s vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan is set to take over as head of state after the sudden death of John Magufuli, here’s a rundown of African
Putin wishes Biden good health after ‘killer’ claim heightens tension
Responding to President Joe Biden’s remark that he thinks the Russian president is a “killer,” Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested the US leader should take stock of his own flaws and
