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Woman disrupts beach wedding over COVID-19 rules

Woman disrupts beach wedding over COVID-19 rules

An unidentified woman has disrupted a beach wedding in the United States after taking it upon herself to enforce Coronavirus rules. The incident occurred at Waimanalo Beach in Oahu, an island in the U.S. state of Hawaii, according to the New York Post. A video of the encounter recorded by the wedding crasher was shared […]

Niger frees 11 Boko Haram hostages

Niger frees 11 Boko Haram hostages

Troops from Niger have freed 11 villagers, four of them children, who had been seized by Boko Haram jihadists and taken across the border into Nigeria, local officials said Monday. “The hostages were freed by our troops on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, near a Boko Haram base,” Yahaya Godi, secretary of the Diffa […]

Floods in Sudan kill 63 since July ― Interior ministry

Floods in Sudan kill 63 since July ― Interior ministry

Sudan on Sunday said floods caused by torrential rains have killed 63 people since July, with thousands more forced from their homes by the seasonal storms. Over 14,000 homes and 119 public buildings were destroyed, while more than 16,000 homes have been badly damaged, government civil defence organisations calculate, according to a statement from the […]

‘Ex-CIA officers sold secrets to China’

‘Ex-CIA officers sold secrets to China’

A former officer for the CIA and then the FBI was charged in federal court in Hawaii Monday with selling US secrets to China, including disclosing the identities of US informants in China. Andrew Yuk Ching Ma was tricked into admitting his activities last year by a US undercover agent who, posing as a Chinese […]

Belarus engulfed in ninth night of protests as Lukashenko heckled

Belarus engulfed in ninth night of protests as Lukashenko heckled

Demonstrators descended on the Belarusian capital on Monday for a ninth night of protests against strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko, who was heckled by factory workers as pressure grows on him to step down. Several thousand protesters gathered at Independence Square in central Minsk, waving the red-and-white flag of the opposition, chanting “Leave” and calling on […]