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Nigerian pop music: in the shadow of Fela Kuti

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Ghana vows improved safety to stop gas fires, blasts

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Japan’s Kobe Steel scandal spreads, 500 firms affected

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ICC unveils long-awaited Test championship

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Mao or never: In Xi’s China, a village clings to past

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Canada, Mexico stick to NAFTA guns despite Trump threats

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Swiss target PSG boss, ex-FIFA exec in World Cup rights probe

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South Africa weighs reimposing graft charges on Zuma

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‘Death by overwork’: occupational hazard for Japan’s media

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Chile penguins win battle in war against mine

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Squeeze on UK health gives advanced nurses leading role

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Thousands of penguin chicks starve in Antarctica

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Knights win NHL home debut after shooting survivors tribute

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US, Israel pull out of UN cultural body over ‘anti-Israel’ bias

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Civilians pour out of Syria’s Raqa as bombing intensifies

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Caitlan and Joshua: Adventurers caught in Taliban trap

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US-Canadian couple still in Pakistan after release from Taliban

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Spikes in carbon emissions detected with NASA satellite

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Octopus skin inspires versatile new camouflage material

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Norway seeks ‘Tesla tax’ on electric cars

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Paris wants to phase out diesel cars by 2024

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Hamas, Fatah sign deal on Palestinian reconciliation

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Asteroid grazes past Earth in ‘critical’ rehearsal

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Greenpeace fireworks shine light on French nuclear safety concerns

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Flying Dutch win world solar car race in Australia

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DR Congo: Timeline of deadly crisis as poll delayed to 2019

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Ghana knock India out of U-17 World Cup with 4-0 thrashing

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Nigerian singer Davido questioned by police after three deaths

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Egypt extends state of emergency

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Kenya opposition vows to defy protest ban amid election crisis

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Saudi Arabia’s next revolution: female taxi drivers

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What Odinga’s election pullout means for Kenya’s turbulent democracy

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China raps Britain after activist barred from Hong Kong

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In the chaos of Bangladesh’s refugee camps, a baby is born

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IMF sounds alert over debt in largest economies

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Baby rhino gallops into public view at Singapore Zoo

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Weinstein allegations swell as film industry faces scrutiny

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Floods, landslides kill 37 in Vietnam, scores missing

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Bikini power: Japan’s lady bodybuilders smashing stereotypes

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Iraqi football fans united by love of European teams

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Pangolin trade forces Ghana to look at new wildlife laws

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Nuzman announces resignation to Brazilian Olympic Committee

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Bloomberg donates $64 million to environmental organizations

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No DR Congo presidential poll before 2019

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Trump warns ‘disgusting’ press after nuke report

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Puerto Rico toll hits 44 as governor asks Congress for more aid

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US military probes possible changes after Niger attack: Mattis

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Kenya says yet to receive notice of Odinga withdrawal

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New rape claims against UN peacekeepers in C. Africa

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Dwarf planet has a ring to it: study

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Underwater nurseries help revive Mediterranean fish stocks

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Zambia ends emergency powers imposed during crisis

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Chad extends key conservation area in national park

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Air pollution kills over 500,000 Europeans a year – report

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MEPs urge probe into Monsanto’s sway over safety studies

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Russian PM talks up Morocco gas projects

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Polluted chicken muck piling up in The Netherlands

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Finding Nemo may become even harder: climate study

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UN official denies C.Africa in ‘pre-genocide’ state

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Rwanda says torture claims ‘baseless’

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More security, less soccer, for China Communist Congress

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As Paris climate goals recede, geoengineering looms larger

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‘Plan B’: Seven ways to engineer the climate

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Rabat restaurant challenges exclusion of mentally disabled

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I would have said no, says black model in Dove’s controversial ad

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India’s top court says sex with child is always rape

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Japan steel scandal grows as more carmakers hit

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US bombers overfly Korean peninsula in show of force

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Paying for household staples with cocaine paste in Colombia

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Mata Hari, femme fatale executed 100 years ago

Africa

Beauty is skin deep for Benin’s pineapples

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US knocked out of World Cup after Trinidad defeat

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Despite strains, Turkey’s wine industry refuses to wither

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Solar panels shine in darkest Amazon, the ‘last frontier’

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Ordinary Kenyans feel pinch of political uncertainty