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A Kenya Airways plane flying from New York to Nairobi had to be diverted to Morocco after a passenger was taken ill and then died on board. The airline said the death happened on Monday. In a statement, Kenya Airways said the flight was diverted to Casablanca, Morocco, where medical …

Three US police officers have been suspended after footage emerged online showing them violently beating a man during an arrest in Arkansas, authorities said on Sunday evening. In the video, which created outrage on social networks, police officers hold down a white man, punching him hard in the head and …

Flash floods swept away hikers and prompted evacuations across the western United States on a weekend marked by torrential rains, the latest weather disaster to hit the region and its famous natural parks. A woman was still missing on Monday after being swept away by a flood Friday in Utah’s …

Ugandan police officials charged and remanded four officers who stormed a wedding reception over the weekend and arrested the bride for theft, local media reported. The four have been charged for discreditable conduct, which upon conviction, could see them dismissed from the force, police spokesperson Fred Enanga said. Following her …

Armed men in Nigeria abducted four nuns of the Catholic Church in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, on a notorious highway, the local convent said. A Catholic priest was also kidnapped last week on the same highway . “The four nuns were on their way to a morning mass on …

A collision between a bus and a fuel tanker in south-east Algeria has left nine people dead, local media reported citing the civil defence. Six other people were injured in the weekend crash in the Illizi area. The civil defence in its statement on Sunday did not identify the cause …

Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the Student Representative Council (SRC) in Ghana, Raphael Sarkodie, has revealed that high school students now carry guns in school, Ghana Pulse reported. According to Mr Sakodie, Ghana students reel frequently from pains of the criminal use of guns. “The trend has become problematic even during …

A young man is in the grips of the police after it came to light that his 15-year-old girlfriend had injected herself with his HIV-positive blood in a bid to prove her love for him, odditycentra website reported. According to the website, the teenage girl hails from Suwal Kuchchi, a village in …

Nigeria’s Lagos state authorities expanded their ban on motorcycle taxis, locally known as okadas, to a further four local government areas and local council development areas, local media reported. The commissioner for transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, said the expansion of the ban was for security reasons and the best interests of …

A school of witchcraft inspired by Harry Potter will soon open its doors in Brittany in the North-East of Ille-et-Vilaine in France. Manuel Roussel, the owner of the castle Le Rocher Portail since 2016 in Maen Roch, had the idea of building the school of witchcraft. This Château du Rocher …