OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 19, (APP/AFP) – Burkina Faso said Saturday that a police officer had died from wounds sustained when militants opened fire on a restaurant in the capital Ougadougou, bringing the death toll from the attack to 19. Defence Minister Jean-Claude Bouda said Sawadogo Yassia, a gendarmerie officer, had died of gunshot wounds from the […]
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Toll in Burkina Faso restaurant attack hits 19
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Death toll in SLeone flood disaster reaches 441
FREETOWN, Aug 20, (Millat) – The death toll from a mudslide and flooding that struck Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has reached 441, the government said on Saturday. “Four hundred and forty-one corpses (were) buried as at yesterday,” the deputy minister of information and communication, Cornelius Deveaux, told AFP, adding that the number of missing […]
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Venezuela parliament convenes, rejects new assembly’s powers
CARACAS, Aug 19, (APP/AFP) – Venezuela’s National Assembly convened Saturday in defiance of a declaration by the new Constituent Assembly that it was seizing full powers from the opposition-led legislature. The move Friday by the Constituent Assembly, which is loyal to socialist President Nicolas Maduro, was angrily rejected by opposition leaders and has drawn widespread […]
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NHL: Long-time GM Murray dies of colon cancer
LOS ANGELES, Aug 13 (APP/AFP) – Bryan Murray, a former coach of the year and general manager with five different National Hockey League clubs, died of colon cancer on Saturday. He was 74. Murray, of Canada, finished with a career record of 620 wins, 488 losses and 131 ties in 17 NHL seasons. He won […]
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FBI probes Charlottesville deadly car ramming
CHARLOTTESVILLE, United States, Aug 13 (APP/AFP) – The FBI said it has opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances that led a driver to plow a car into a crowd while white nationalist activists and counter-protesters clashed in Charlottesville on Saturday. “The Richmond FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division and the US Attorney’s […]
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Egypt punishes train disaster ‘selfie medics’
CAIRO, Aug 13 (APP/AFP) – Egypt’s health ministry has punished six medics who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a remote part of the country, it said Saturday, following an online uproar. Two trains collided Friday near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing 41 people in one of […]