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The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has granted an 18.65% electricity price increase for the coming financial year. This is less than what power utility Eskom had asked for, but more than twice the current rate of inflation. Mark Roughton reports.
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Ukraine's Defence Minister Olekseii Reznikov says his country has become a "de facto" member of the western military alliance NATO.
Reznikov made the comments in an interview with the BBC, also saying he was sure Ukraine would receive long-requested western weapons including tanks.
Rosie Birchard reports Brussels, where NATO is headquartered.
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Police in Uganda have arrested a suspected terrorist in Kampala. The man whose names are not yet public was found with suspected bomb equipment and materials.
Security sources say the suspect is believed to have links to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a designated rebel group operating in DR Congo.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation says the Himalayan
town of Joshimath has sunk by 5.4 centimeters in just 12 days.
The process known as subsidence has forced more than 4000 of
the city’s residents to relief camps as more than 600 buildings in the city
developed potentially fatal cracks.
Ishan Garg has the latest from New Delhi.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis, has died at the age of 54.
She suffered a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, just 36 hours after attending the Golden Globe awards on Tuesday.
Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, has announced that he's appointed a special prosecutor to probe President Biden's handling of classified documents.
The move came after it emerged that a second cache of classified documents has been found at the President's home in Delaware, some of them stored in his garage.
Mr. Garland revealed that since November 9th last year the FBI has been investigating the handling of the first set of documents discovered in an office that President Biden used in Washington from 2017 until 2020.
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Several key members of the US Democrat Party are formally calling on Joe Biden to revoke former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's visa, which he's used to enter and remain in the United States.
Mr Bolsonaro, following a vote he claimed without evidence was infected by fraud, flew to Florida before the end of his Presidential term and the inauguration of his successor.
The letter sent from Democrats demanding the US administration investigate Bolsonaro's visa status comes after thousands of his supporters stormed Brazil's Congress on Sunday in an attempt to overturn last year's election result.
In Washington DC, Benji Hyer reports.
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The UK's largest retailer has reported strong trading figures over Christmas, boosted by higher prices.
Leading supermarket Tesco says it is on course to hit profit targets of up to £2.5 billion for the year.
Meanwhile, Marks and Spencer revealed record food sales and its highest clothing and home market share for seven years.
Sally Patterson reports.
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