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The United States recorded its first case of polio on Thursday for almost a decade, according to New York State health authorities. A person residing in the county of Rockland, 48 km north of Manhattan, tested positive for the disease, his case indicating “a chain of transmission coming from an …

Armed men shot dead, Moses Maluleke, mayor of a town in northern South Africa and wounded his son during a raid at their home on Thursday night, according to police. Mr. Maluleke, 56, mayor of the municipality of Collins Chabane in the province of Limpopo, died after being killed by …

A court has slapped a man with three life sentences after finding him guilty of raping his biological daughters, News Agency of Nigeria reported. On Thursday, July 14, Justice Abiola Soladoye, who presided over Nigeria’s Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offenses Court, sentenced Michake Ogbar, describing his conduct as a “disgrace …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The World Food Programme says up to 20 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are at risk of starvation by the end of the year. The worst drought in four decades is raging through the Horn of Africa. Somalia is bearing the brunt with half of the population now …

An 80-year-old woman died in the United States after being attacked by two alligators, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The victim, whose name has not been released by the authorities, fell around 8 p.m. on Friday in a pond near a golf course and near his home, said …

Egyptian authorities on Monday suspended hot air balloon flights over the pharaonic sites of Luxor, one of the country’s most touristic cities in the south, after an accident which left “only two minor injuries”. “While a group of hot air balloons were in flight, one of them collided with another …

South African provincial wildlife authorities in KwaZulu-Natal killed a pride of six lions said to have escaped a game reserve and killed livestock in neighbouring areas, local media reported. It came after residents protested and threatened to hunt and kill them if no action was taken, the BBC reported. They …