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China has urged its citizens in Israel to leave “as soon as possible” as tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah escalate. “Currently, the situation along the Israel-Lebanon border is extremely tense, with frequent military conflicts,” China’s embassy in Israel said in a statement on Sunday. “The security situation in Israel remains severe,…
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British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Monday will vow to “rebuild Britain” after 14 years of Conservative leadership, warning of “difficult decisions” in a speech at the Labour Party conference. The speech, which comes a little over a month before the ruling Labour Party’s first detailed budget, will be closely watched by investors amid fears…
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A 35-year-old man, Godwin Peter Femi, has been arrested in Lagos after being accused of repeated sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl over three months.The police were alerted to the alleged abuse on September 10 when the girl’s father
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The Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Special Offences, over the weekend, impounded 51 vehicles across the state in its renewed crackdown on illegal parking.
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Malam Usman Maigadi, a guard at Orchard Farm owned by the Emir of Yauri, Dr. Muhammad Zayyanu-Abdullahi, has been killed by a mother hippopotamus, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN gathers that the animal may have perceived the deceased as coming to harm its baby, hence the attack in self-defence. Maiyaki, who was 60…