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Uganda’s chief of defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has said he should now be known as Muhoozi Kainerugaba Museveni. It is still not clear whether the new name has been officially recorded. He has also said he will run for president in 2031, hoping to follow his 6.7K views · 1 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has taken more than 58 percent of the vote in Russia’s parliamentary elections, enough to be on track for more than three quarters of the seats in the State Duma. The three-day poll was widely criticised for shutting out real 7.3K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sudan’s army has gained ground in Blue Nile state after fighting the Rapid Support Forces and their ally, the SPLM-N. Local officials said troops took several places in Kurmuk locality and captured military vehicles and an ammunition store. 8.9K views · 7 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The United States lifted sanctions on Eritrea on 18 September 2026, dropping measures brought in over the Tigray war. Watchers say the decision may be tied to Eritrea’s position on the Red Sea, as Washington looks for more influence while fighting and security problems in the 5.7K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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Uganda has halted all defence and military cooperation with Türkiye after a growing row over the extradition of political commentator Fred Lumbuye. The freeze will last until outstanding problems between the two countries are settled. Officials have not said what those problems 10K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

A Ugandan man has drawn a crowd online after a large elephant came right up to him and his family and he hardly shifted. He stayed still as the animal approached and sat there as if nothing out of the ordinary was going on. https://t.co/nrGse6bGwI

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Uganda’s army chief, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, said on X that he is now Muhoozi Kainerugaba Museveni, or MKM. The new form adds his father’s family name. He has for years been known as Muhoozi Kainerugaba, with Kainerugaba coming from his

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Zimbabwe is putting up an entire new city near Harare, called Zim Cyber City, and the figures attached to it are huge. Later stages of the wider scheme are said to run as high as $60 billion. The first phase is put at $500 million and covers housing and offices. China already h

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South Africa’s DJ Maphorisa is at the centre of a new argument online after a widely shared post said the amapiano producer has Nigerian ancestry. Some biographical accounts have long said his father is Nigerian and his mother South African, and that he was born and grew up in h

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Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng, a 45-year-old Catholic nun from Myitkyina in Myanmar’s Kachin State, went down on her knees in front of a line of heavily armed police on 8 March 2021. She begged them not to harm the children who were protesting and to shoot her instead, as officers htt

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China’s Supreme People’s Court said three men convicted of sexually abusing children were executed on 13 November 2024. It described the deaths as a sign the country will not tolerate such crimes and as a warning to others. The court published short accounts of the cases and htt

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Woman shares her before and after photo https://t.co/LtjiQT3Zbf

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People online have taken to calling Suraj Chavan the “Indian Justin Bieber.” The hair, the young face and a style that reminded them of Bieber made the nickname spread fast. Soon it was just how a lot of users talked about him. That still was not the end of it. Some viral posts

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The idea grew out of a very practical snag. In parts of Japan, turtles were getting caught between railway tracks as they tried to move between ponds, canals and other water. Some ended up in the points that switch the rails, which sometimes caused mechanical trouble and delayed

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In January 2016 German teenager Andrej Ciesielski climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza in secret and took pictures from the top. He did it without permission from the Egyptian authorities. It was against the law. The pyramid was built about 4,500 years ago under Pharaoh Khufu. It

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In 2009 Bill Gates began a TED Talk on malaria with one of the best-remembered moments in the series. He let mosquitoes out of a jar and told the room there was no reason only poor people should have that experience. He wanted a well-off audience to think, just for a moment, htt

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South Africa holds the biggest known reserves of rhodium, the rare silver-white metal that now ranks among the dearest precious metals on earth. It is not dug up on its own. It sits with platinum and palladium in the Bushveld Complex, a vast rock body in South Africa that also h

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American rapper 50 Cent said on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber on 17 February 2023 that he was proud after Nigerian artist Tekno sampled his song In Da Club on the track GO. The presenter noted that musicians around the world, from Atlanta to Nigeria, still lean on 50 Cent’s h

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Algeria has broken off diplomatic relations with the UAE, saying Abu Dhabi has carried out repeated “hostile actions.” The split has been driven by sharp differences over Western Sahara, Israel and influence in the region. 18.8K views · 26 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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Yemen’s army has started hitting Houthi positions along the western coast, including the city of Mokha, a day after it declared at least two roads in the area off-limits to civilians. 17.3K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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Jordan ranks among the driest countries on earth. People there have only 80 litres of water each a day. 23.4K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

A man in New Jersey spends his nights flying drones to help find missing pets. His name is Michael Parziale. He uses thermal drones that pick up body heat in the dark, which makes it easier to see animals hidden in woods, fields and other places that are hard to search. His ht

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A man once tracked down a pop star’s house by looking at the reflections in her eyes. It was in Japan in 2019. He became fixated on singer Ena Matsuoka and started going through the selfies she put online. He enlarged the tiny images visible in her pupils. From those, he is h

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This is a cockroach farm, and it can make a surprising amount of money. In China some sites raise millions, even billions, of the insects at once. They are kept in warm, dark sheds where they breed quickly and are then collected for different purposes. Some go into traditional

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This is Hachikō, one of the most faithful dogs there has ever been. Each day he would meet his owner, Professor Hidesaburō Ueno, at Shibuya Station in Tokyo. Then, in 1925, Ueno died suddenly at work. Hachikō never grasped that he would not return. So he went back to the http

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For children living in a remote part of Điện Biên Province, Vietnam, getting to school once meant facing dangerous, flooded rivers during the rainy season. A viral photograph circulating online showed parents placing their children inside large plastic bags before carrying them

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Danny Ellerd transformed his life after years of homelessness and addiction, overcoming serious health challenges before entering recovery and rebuilding his future. After achieving sobriety, he began supporting others facing similar struggles and using his own experience to htt

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In 2016, some Uber drivers in China reportedly resorted to disturbing and heavily distorted profile photos to frighten passengers into cancelling their rides. The tactic allowed drivers to collect a small cancellation fee without actually completing the trip. In other cases, ht

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