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Uganda's presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine has been arrested. Bobi Wine was scheduled to start nationwide consultations ahead of the 2021 presidential polls. Leon Ssenyange reports
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Uganda's presidential hopeful Robert Kyagulanyi also known as Bobi Wine has been arrested. Bobi Wine was scheduled to start nationwide consultations ahead of the 2021 presidential polls. Leon Ssenyange reports
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A serial sexual predator convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes, has been jailed for life.
Reynhard Sinaga, aged 36, was found guilty of luring dozens men to his apartment from outside clubs in the UK city of Manchester, before drugging and assaulting them, and filming the attacks.
Benji Hyer reports.
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The African Union and the United Nations are against external interference in the Libya Crisis saying it will deepen the conflict .
This comes as the first Turkish troops arrive in Libya to support the UN-backed Government of National Accord.
The UN is concerned that the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Russia are also funding the opposing faction, The Libyan National Army.
Coletta Wanjohi report from Addis Ababa:
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Police in Uganda have arrested celebrated artist and opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine as he attempted to hold his first nationwide consultations as an aspiring Presidential candidate.
Police say Bobi Wine did not follow the procedures required to hold consultations as provided by the law.
Bobi Wine declared his intention to stand for President in the country's next general elections in 2021
Michael Baleke reports from Kampala.
The UK Labour party's ruling committee is meeting on Monday to finalise the rules and timetable of the leadership contest for the country's main opposition party.
Five candidates have confirmed they will stand since Jeremy Corbyn announced he would step down following Labour's defeat at the general election last month, the party's fourth loss in a row.
Benji Hyer has more from London.
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A special court set up in France to try suspects in the wave of terror attacks that shook the country in 2015 starts to hear its first case on Monday morning - but only five out of 24 suspects will be in court.
The group are accused of encouraging young French citizens to travel to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS in 2014 - but most of the names on the docket are believed to have been killed in the conflict.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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2020 has hardly begun and weather is already having a huge impact across the Asia Pacific region. Large swaths of Australia are still on fire and floods caused by the largest recorded downpour since records began have killed 60 people in Indonesia. To the north, Thailand is now bracing for its worst drought in decades.
Daniel Quinlan reports.
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The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards has wrapped up for another year as the best in film and TV were honored in Los Angeles.
Iran says it will no longer abide by the commitments it made under the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, the Parliament in Iraq has ordered the expulsion of all foreign troops - including British personnel - stationed in the country following Thursday night's US assassination in Baghdad of General Qasem Soleimani.
Our US correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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