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Voters in Ohio, a state located in the east of the United States, voted to include the protection of the right to abortion in their Constitution, US media announced. “Yes” won more than 57% of the votes, according to the first partial results. Hundreds of thousands of voters went to …

The family of popular Nigerian actor John Okafor known as Mr Ibu has announced that his leg has been amputated, for medical reasons. Doctors had no choice but to sever the limb “to keep him alive”, relatives say in a statement on his Instagram page. “This development has been hard …

Twenty-one years after the double murder of a father and his 3-year-old daughter in Compton, California, a suspect now aged 47 was arrested on October 30, several American media including the ABC7 channel reported. According to authorities, who spoke on the subject Friday, the double murder occurred on August 8, …

Tunisian security and military forces caught five Islamists who escaped from a prison last week, where they were serving time for killing two secular politicians and policemen, Reuters reported. The interior ministry said four of the escapees were captured on a mountain near Tunis early on Tuesday, while another was …

Suspected separatist rebels have killed at least 20 people during an overnight attack on a village, officials in south-western Cameroon said. Several others were left badly injured and homes were set ablaze in the area known as Manyu. Two Anglophone regions of Cameroon have suffered from relentless violence since 2017 …

More than 20 people have been killed and several others injured after shells hit a market in a suburb of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a group of lawyers said. The crowded market in Omdurman was hit after an intense exchange of fire between the Sudan army and the paramilitary Rapid Support …

A final year student of Petroleum Training Institute has been electrocuted while installing solar panels on a one-storey building at Warri Garage area, Nigeria. “The aluminium ladder used by the student in climbing up to the position he intended to install the solar panels was magnetised by the high-tension wires …

US and Kenyan authorities are searching for the killer of a Kenyan-American woman found dead at the Boston Logan International Airport in Massachusetts. Police said that they found the brutally wounded body of Margaret Mbitu, 31, in the passenger seat of a car parked at the airport. The primary suspect …

A 34-year-old man drowned on Elegushi beach during a religious gathering in Lagos State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The church had organised a picnic for its youths which the deceased was a part of,” reports said. “Concerns grew when the members were about to leave the beach but couldn’t locate …

The corpse of a dead man was found at a truck garage in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The corpse of th dead man found standing and leaning on the wall of the garage when some of the truck drivers came to pick up …