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At least fifteen people have died after their boat conveying an undisclosed number of passengers capsized in Mai'adua Local Government Area of Katsina State, North West Nigeria.
A funeral was held for the victims at Tsabu town on Thursday.
Ajeck Mangut reports from Nigeria's capital Abuja.
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The results of the UK's local elections are being unveiled and it's not great news for the Conservative party.
In London, they've lost control of the councils in Wandsworth, Barnet and Westminister.
Wandsworth has been a Conservative seat for 44 years and is a huge loss for the party.
It's now under Labour control and is a real signifier of how some voters across the UK seem to have lost trust in the government's leadership over the partygate scandal and the rise in the cost of living.
Robert Jenrick is a conservative MP and says the results so far are disappointing, but not yet disastrous for his party.
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The Conservative Party has already lost more than a hundred council seats in local elections in the UK.
Counting is still going on across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, with most results expected later on Friday.
Sally Patterson has more.
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EU countries are still debating the details of a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.
The proposals include a phased-in ban on Russian oil imports, a topic dividing EU nations.
Rosie Birchard reports from Brussels.
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Uganda has launched its three year refugee response plan but warns it may need to slash expenditures amid dwindling funds.
The UN refugee agencies in Uganda say their budget lines for 2022 - 2025 have gone down by 13% yet the numbers of refugees keep rising.
The UN needs about $800 million annually for the next three years to meet the critical needs of refugees.
Isabel Nakirya reports
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A new WHO reports says a third of all COVID-19 deaths may have occurred in India – making the country the worst hit by the pandemic in terms of total fatalities.
The Indian government has refuted the health body's figures.
Ishan Garg tells us more from New Delhi.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has raised an additional seven billion dollars to finance his purchase of Twitter, including a billion dollars from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
The world's richest man is on the cusp of buying the social media platform for 44 billion dollars.
Ira Spitzer reports from San Francisco.
Funds totalling 6.5 billion USD were raised for war-torn Ukraine at an international donors' conference on Wednesday, according to the event's co-host Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The event, held in Warsaw, was attended by top EU leaders and business representatives.
Rosie Birchard has more.
A number of Republican-led states in the U.S. are moving on laws to make abortion more restricted.
On Monday, a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggested justices are preparing to overturn Roe v Wade, that proivdes a constitutional right to abortion.
Now a number of Republican governors are speaking up in favor of abortion rights.
Caroline Malone reports.
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Nearly 15 million people globally have died as a result of COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.
That's almost three times more than the number officially recorded, and 13% more deaths than normally expected over two years.
Benji Hyer reports.
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France's President is days out from an inauguration that is likely to include big promises to combat climate change.
But France has struggled to meet all its commitments so far … and is still using the earth's ecological resources faster than they can be replenished.
Ryan Thompson has more from Paris.
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Emmanuel Macron is promising to double down on climate goals when his second term begins this weekend.
But the President will already be "over budget" when it comes to using natural resources, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Thursday marks the so-called "day of overshoot" in France … meaning that the country has used MORE resources than the ecosystem can produce.
This date varies by country as you move around the globe, with some nations like Qatar using up resources in just over a month's time … while Jamaica doesn't exceed earth's regeneration abilities until mid-December.
Ryan Thompson, Paris.
U.N Secretary General Antonio Guterres made the pledge after a meeting with the country's President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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