image copyrightGetty Images The fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray state may not only have drastic implications for the future of the country but could also seriously affect its neighbours. Seeking to calm tensions
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/13/world/13nigeria-protest‑1/13nigeria-protest-1-moth.jpgLAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s leaders have made a show of responding to the demands of a massive youth-led uprising over police brutality that recently brought the country to a standstill and captured global attention. The government has commissioned panels of inquiry
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Sierra Leone fought back from 4–0 down away to Nigeria to draw 4–4 on Friday in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier after a spectacular comeback in Benin City. The Super Eagles were
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image copyrightBritish Museum The British Museum has announced its plans to help “investigate the history of the Kingdom of Benin”, with a grand archaeology mission and new museum. The organisation will work with
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f9fbb22240000fc2c61edde.jpeg?cache=1ceaqiabwu&ops=224_126 On September 16, when Subhash Chandran, a scuba diver, along with four others, went for their first underwater clean-up post the lockdown at Rushikonda beach in Visakhapatnam, they found floating in the seabed N‑95, surgical and cloth masks and
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f9d916a240000201b9adbc6.jpeg?cache=og8rugxs2c&ops=224_126 As vast tracts of the developed world grapple with a second wave of COVID-19, life in China is returning to normal, and the country is on track to do what virtually no other country will achieve this year: Grow
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5f8709572000009d05561aeb.jpeg?cache=aziooxotjr&ops=224_126 A man walking his dog eyed the U.S. plates on our car. “You people shouldn’t be here,” he sneered. My husband, children and I were in the midst of a socially distanced reunion with my father outside
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fa44bda2400005a3761f293.jpeg?cache=jah5vk7i5j&ops=224_126 When Boris Johnson took to our screens on Saturday to tell us that, for the second time this year, England was going into lockdown, the sense of déjà vu was crushing. The tactics taken by the government
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https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5fa0579a2900003b21c6b286.jpeg?cache=uzlenvo35y&ops=224_126 Canadians are more confident and less stressed out than Americans when it comes to stopping the spread of COVID-19, according to a new poll. Half of Canadians said in an Angus Reid survey released Monday that they
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Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has tested positive for coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt. The Egyptian Football Federation said on Friday that Salah, 28, returned a positive test but is not displaying any symptoms.
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