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    Business Crude Oil Prices Dip on Stronger Dollar

    Crude prices dipped further in Asia on Friday on a stronger dollar, dampening a rally that saw the commodity hit 11-month highs earlier in the week. The losses were in line with a sell-off on equities markets from Asia to the Americas fuelled by worries about the state of the global economy...
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    Metro Chibok Vice-Principal Reacts to Rescued School Girl

    The rescue of two of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria two years has thrown global attention onto Amina Ali and Luka. “She was completely changed. She had become very thin and awkward,” Blamadu...
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    Business Dollar Weakens Against Major Currencies Ahead of Federal Reserve Meeting

    The dollar weakened against its major peers Tuesday ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting as the shaky global economy weighs on hopes for a summer US rate hike, with a Bank of Japan gathering also in focus. Dealers are hoping the Federal will provide clues about the state of the world's biggest...
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    World Bomb Blast Hits South-Eastern Turkish City

    A bomb has detonated near a bus shelter has rocked the Kurdish-dominated south-eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, security sources say. At least seven people were injured in the blast as an armoured police vehicle drove by, the sources added. Turkey's army is locked in an operation against...
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    World Niger Presidential Candidate 'Amadou' ill, Flown to Paris For Treatment

    Niger’s ailing presidential candidate Hama Amadou, who was jailed for four months, was evacuated Wednesday to Paris for medical treatment just days before a run-off vote, an aide said. Amadou, 66, faces incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou in a second-round vote Sunday after campaigning from...
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    World Malawi Mob Burns 7 Persons to Death Over Suspected Witchcraft

    A mob in southern Malawi burned seven men to death for allegedly possessing human bones for use in witchcraft, police said on Wednesday. The seven were "found in possession of human bones and the mob took it upon themselves to burn them with petrol," Kirdy Kaunga, head of the Nsanje district...
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    World Tunisia: Troops Kill 4 Suspected Militants During Counter-Terrorism Operation

    Tunisian troops killed four suspected militants in a counter-terrorism operation overnight that was still continuing on Tuesday, the interior ministry spokesman said. There were no security force casualties in the operation in the Ain Jaffel area on the border between the central provinces of...
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    Metro Borno: 30 Dead in Fresh Boko Haram Raids on Villages

    At least 30 people have been killed in fresh Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP on Saturday. Gun and knife-toting assailants on bikes and in vans stormed the remote villages of Yakshari and Kachifa on Friday and Saturday, said Mustapha Karimbe, a local...
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