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Nigeria's government has asked Google to bar proscribed groups from accessing platforms such as YouTube.
It says Channels and emails containing names of proscribed groups and their affiliates should not be allowed on Google platforms.
Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja.
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Both Conservative Party leadership candidates disagree on policies concerning the UK's economic future.
On Thursday, the Bank of England raised interest rates by 50 base points warning that a recession could engulf the UK by the end of the year.
Chris Jones has more from London
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Hong Kong’s health authorities say they’re on high alert, after a surge in imported cases of malaria to the city. 30 travelers have arrived carrying the disease in the past month.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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A Texas jury has ordered prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than 4 million dollars to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in 2012.
Jones had falsely claimed that the shooting, which claimed the lives of twenty children and six adults in Newtown Connecticut, was a hoax.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer reports.
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The US justice department has charged four current and former police officers in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
Police opened fire after the 26-year-old emergency room technician's boyfriend shot an officer in the leg believing he was an intruder.
Breonna Taylor's death in March 2020 sparked protests and led to intense scrutiny of the police department in Louisville, Kentucky.
Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports
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Brittney Griner's sentencing at the hands of a Russian court is a "miscarriage of justice," according to the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Moscow.
Elizabeth Rood spoke shortly after the trial concluded in the town of Khimki, during which the American basketball player was given nine years in prison for drug possession and smuggling.
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American basketball player Brittney Griner has been fined a million rubles and sentenced to nine years in a penal colony after being found guilty by a Russian court of drug possession and smuggling.
The Olympic gold medallist was detained in February when cannabis oil vape cartridges, which are illegal in Russia, were found in her luggage.
She pleaded guilty to the charges but denied deliberately breaking the law.
From Washington, Benji Hyer reports.
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Talks aimed at reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal are being held in Vienna after negotiations ran aground earlier this year.
The deal, under which most international sanctions on Tehran are lifted in exchange for restrictions on Iran's nuclear programme, has been in tatters since the U.S. pulled out in 2018.
Rosie Birchard reports from Brussels.
New data reveals that Russia became India's third biggest coal supplier in July.
Imports rose to a record of more than 2 million tonnes. India has avoided condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Our correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports from Mumbai.
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