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South African power supplier Eskom is implementing record-level Stage 6 loadshedding for the second time this year. Numerous power generation plants have experienced partial or complete shutdowns since Saturday. Eskom is unable to confirm how long this round of scheduled power cuts is expected to last. Mark Roughton reports.
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Some conservationists in India are raising alarm after the country reintroduced Cheetahs into the wild.
They were declared extinct 7 decades ago.
But now the government has received the first batch of 12 big cats from Namibia.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
IN: Some conservationists...The war in Ukraine and trade are expected to top the agenda when South African president Cyril Ramaphosa holds talks with US president Joe Biden in Washington later(Friday).
It will be Mr Ramaphosa's first visit to the White House and the first time that a South African president has been there since 2014.
From Washington, Kate Fisher reports
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Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari has awarded the country's citizenship to 286 foreign nationals.
He says it's in accordance with the government's action plan to eradicate statelessness in the country by 2024, and promote oneness of the human race.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports from Jos.
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Uganda has condemned a resolution by the European Union Parliament seeking to block the construction of the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
The 3.8-billion-dollar pipeline project is expected to evacuate oil from western Uganda to the Port of Tanga in Tanzania.
Michael Baleke reports from Kampala;
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The leaders of China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and other Eurasian nations are gathered in Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
After a much-anticipated bilateral meeting between President Putin and President Xi Jinping on Thursday, at which the Russian leader acknowledged China had "concerns" about Ukraine, the two leaders will hold separate talks with other counterparts on Friday.
Rosie Birchard is in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where the summit is taking place.
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The brutal rape and death and two minor girls in India's most populated state Uttar Pradesh is sparking outrage in the country.
The two girls belonged to the Dalit community – one of the most oppressed and marginalised groups in the country.
Ishan Garg reports.
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Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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A federal Judge has rejected the US Justice Department's request to resume reviewing classified material it seized from former president Donald Trump's Mar a Lago home.
The Florida court also appointed a neutral third party suggested by Trump's legal team to oversee the process.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer has more.
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