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180 land in hospital after eating tainted shawarma

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2018

Over 180 people have sought medical attention in recent days after eating tainted chicken shawarma in Russia’s eastern Siberian region of Tuva, a medical authority said on Wednesday. “The food-poisoning outbreak is believed to have been caused by the meat,” a spokeswoman for the local branch of

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Boko Haram hits Chad, slaughters 18, kidnaps 10 women

Daily Dispatch July 22, 2018

Eighteen people have been killed in a brutal attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said Sunday. “Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua,” not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday, the military source said. The assailants […]

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South African police officers to face trial for killing Nigerian

Daily Dispatch July 20, 2018

Authorities would soon arraign South African police officers for alleged killing a 25-year-old Nigerian, Mr. Ibrahim Olalekan-Badmus, in 2017. The Nigerian Mission in South Africa said on Friday in an interview that the officers were implicated in the killing. The Nigeria’s Consul General in South Africa, Mr. Godwin Adama, said through a telephone from Johannesburg […]

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Senegal convicts 13 ‘Boko Haram fighters’

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2018

Senegal’s criminal court has sentenced 13 people to prison for attempting to establish a homegrown cell modelled after Boko Haram in the West Africa country. One of those jailed by the Dakar court on Thursday was Makhtar Diokhane, described as the ringleader of the group. He was handed a 20-year prison term. “The court was […]

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Suspected IS Member Guilty Of Plotting To Kill Theresa May

Daily Dispatch July 18, 2018

A British man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group was found guilty on Wednesday of plotting to behead Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, planned to bomb the gates of Downing Street, kill guards and then attack May. Rahman thought he was being helped by an IS […]

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Turkish government taken to international tribunal

Daily Dispatch July 17, 2018

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime accused of illegally seizing company assets The Turkish government’s seizure of independent media companies is to be challenged in two international cases on the grounds that the multibillion expropriations breach investment treaties involving Britain and other EU states. The UK-related claim, worth more than $5bn (£3.8bn), is aimed at