Mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) around two weeks before a July 30 referendum that would allow President Faustin-Archange Touadéra to run for a third term – which the current law forbids him from pursuing. As Al Jazeera explained, the...
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A day after soldiers of the Presidential Guard detained the president and took over the country, supporters of a coup in Niger set fire to the headquarters of the ruling party while the deposed president vowed to restore democracy, Reuters reported Thursday. In the capital of...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face a vote of no-confidence in parliament after a lawmaker from Congress, India’s main opposition party, introduced a motion this week over the ongoing violence in the northeastern state of Manipur, Al Jazeera reported. On Wednesday, Om Birla, the speaker of the Lok Sabha,...
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A multinational panel investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers’ college in Mexico said that while it wasn’t able to determine the students’ fate, the investigation had gathered enough evidence to show that Mexican security forces at the local, state and federal levels...
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This week, Ukraine launched a major push in its offensive against Russia with fierce fighting breaking out in southeastern Ukraine, the Associated Press reported. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that “hostilities have intensified significantly” while insisting that Kyiv’s push wasn’t successful, a claim that...
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Prehistoric saber-toothed cats and dire wolves suffered from a developmental joint disease that also affects their modern relatives and humans, according to Science Magazine. In a new study, veterinarian Hugo Schmökel and a team of palaeontologists analyzed the well-preserved bones of more than 1,000 saber-toothed cats...
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