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  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has conducted a regional training for six West African countries on how to dismantle clandestine laboratories with a view to strengthen regional action against drug cartels. The training, which took place in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire, from March 27 to 29, involving six other West African countries―Republic of …

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    A US journalist working for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested in Russia on charges of spying for Washington, Russia’s FSB security services said on Thursday. The announcement marks a serious escalation in the Kremlin’s efforts to silence perceived critics, a crackdown that gained momentum following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine last …

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    Four policemen were killed by a roadside bomb as they scrambled to protect a police station under siege by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Pakistan has witnessed rising attacks by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since the Afghan Taliban retook Kabul in 2021, and police are increasingly on the frontline of Islamabad’s …

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    Police and emergency workers were trying Thursday to rescue up to 25 Indian devotees who were trapped inside a well after a floor caved in at a Hindu temple, an official and media reports said. The floor, which doubled as a cover for the stepwell — an often large, stair-lined communal water source …

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    Pope Francis spent a calm night in hospital after being admitted for a respiratory infection and is expected to remain there for a few days for treatment, a Vatican source said Thursday. “The pope spent a good night” at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the source said, adding that there would be an update on …

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    Two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Kentucky during a training mission Wednesday night, resulting in “several casualties,” officials said. The helicopters, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), crashed at around 10 pm Wednesday in Kentucky’s Trigg county, northwest of Fort Campbell, the army base said in a statement early Thursday. …

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  At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday. The Lady Mary Joy 3 was travelling from Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island to Jolo Island in Sulu province when the fire broke out late Wednesday, prompting passengers to jump overboard, disaster …

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    Niagale Camara places nuts into a basin, working with her colleagues at a cooperative near Bamako, Mali, to transform the fruit into a highly prized vegetable oil: shea butter. Shea, a tree indigenous to Africa, and whose fruit is collected almost entirely by women, is becoming an instrument of economic development in some …

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  The pan-Yoruba organisation Afenifere has dismissed claims of rubbishing Bola Tinubu’s election, maintaining that the group recognises the former Lagos State governor as the president-elect.  “My attention has been drawn to the communique purportedly issued after a meeting that was held on Tuesday, March 27, at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State,” a Wednesday statement signed …

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