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Mozambique’s capital Maputo on Friday suffered a mobile internet blackout after protests against the re-election of the ruling Frelimo party descended into violence.Protests erupted on Thursday with hundreds of opposition supporters rejecting what they called a ballot “stolen” by a “corrupt” electoral commission in favour of the party which has ruled since 1975.The commission had …

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A prolific “catfish” offender whose cruel campaign of global online blackmail targeted thousands of young victims and drove a 12-year-old US girl to suicide was on Friday jailed for life.Alexander McCartney, 26, posed online as a teenage girl to befriend young females across the world on the social media app Snapchat, forcing them to send …

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US President Joe Biden delivered a historic apology Friday for one of the country’s “most horrific chapters”: abducting Native American children from their families and placing them in government boarding schools to erase their culture.From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to forcibly …

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Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil’s government to pay nearly $30 billion in damages for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered the country’s worst environmental disaster.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the November 5, 2015 collapse of a tailings dam at a …

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Billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, was plunged into new controversy on Friday after a report that he is in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Wall Street Journal story, which has been denied by the Kremlin, comes just days after the US Justice Department sent …

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The US election takes a detour from the swing state circuit to reliably Republican Texas on Friday as Kamala Harris rallies with pop superstar Beyonce and Donald Trump sits down with the country’s biggest podcaster.Texas is an unorthodox stop just before Election Day on November 5, especially for Harris who is otherwise spending almost every …

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Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil’s government to pay nearly $30 billion in compensation for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered the country’s worst environmental disaster.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the collapse of a tailings dam at a mine in the …

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Max Verstappen has told AFP it is “definitely” his intention to remain at Red Bull until 2028 despite a turbulent season on and off the track.Verstappen, speaking in an interview ahead of the Mexico Grand Prix, stressed he had a “long-term” contract with Red Bull until 2028, and praised rival teams for “catching up” on …

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A sarcastic monument is dumped in Washington, Barack Obama shows off his rapping skills, and a bakery says cookies can predict the election outcome.Here’s a look at the wild, weird side of the US presidential race over the past week.- Oh, crap -A strange new monument was installed in Washington: a replica of former House …

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US President Joe Biden was set on Thursday to deliver a historic apology for one of the country’s “darkest chapters”: the abduction of Native American children from their families and placement in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture.From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools …

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