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Seventeen US lawmakers, including rising left-wing star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were arrested in Washington on Tuesday following a demonstration to defend the right to abortion, police said. “We have arrested a total of 35 people” including “17 members of Congress” because after three summons, “some of the demonstrators (refused) to leave …

Israel and Morocco cemented their military alliance during talks in Rabat on Tuesday between Israeli army chief Aviv Kochavi and senior Moroccan officials, as part of growing cooperation between the two states. General Kochavi was received by Abdellatif Loudiyi, Minister Delegate in charge of Defense, for the first official visit …

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari issued a warning to the country’s education and labor ministers to end the protracted teachers’ strike. The president has given the ministers two weeks to find out a solution to teacher’s strike. The country’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) asked its members to skip work …

A Mozambican court sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for kidnapping two minors for ransom in the central city of Beira, the BBC reported. The 37-year-old woman is also required to pay $3,100 (£2,580) in compensation to the children’s families. The court heard that the woman kidnapped a …

Two security forces in Togo died on the night of July 18 to 19, 2022, after their patrol fell into an ambush by unknown persons assimilated to terrorists in the north of the country. The tragedy occurred in the village of Tiwoli which was the scene of this umpteenth attack …

Preliminary autopsy results show former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ death was due to natural causes, a Spanish court ruled on Monday while ordering further examination, Reuters reported. It comes after the late president’s daughter, Tchize dos Santos, requested an autopsy of her father’s corpse. The former president died …

The director of the American development assistance agency, Samantha Power, pledged more than a billion dollars on Monday to try to avoid famine in the Horn of Africa, calling on other countries, in particular China , to do more to combat the food crisis deepened by the Russian invasion of …

Ellen Thorburn, the Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Chad, urged the Transitional Military Council (CMT) to “keep up on its commitments” not to stand in the next elections. Mrs. Thorburn spoke on the occasion of the celebration of the accession of her country to independence. After her, it …

A 23-year-old man allegedly killed his girlfriend with a machete in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, Nigeria, for destroying his iPhone 11 pro max mobile phone. The man identified as Godspower Adigheti and the deceased, Gift Oloku, had an altercation, which resulted in a fight. Nigeria State …

Women’s rights activists in Ivory Coast expressed their dissatisfaction with a bill to legalize polygamy for men in the country, describing it as a step backwards in the fight for equality. According to activists, Ivorian women face systemic inequalities and discrimination. Outlawed in Ivory Coast in 1964, polygamy remains widespread …