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Police in the United Kingdom have charged Nigeria's ex-oil Minister, Diezani Alison Madueke with bribery offences.
The British cops say they suspect she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi million pound oil and gas contracts while as Minister in Nigeria.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports from Jos.
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17 workers are feared dead in the north-eastern state of Mizoram in India, where a railway bridge that was under-construction, collapsed. Several workers are still trapped, as rescue teams work to pull them out.
Shalu Yadav has more
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CUE: The king of Thailand has confirmed Srettha Thavisin as prime minister, after parliament chose the property developer to lead a coalition government.
And a former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has spent most of his first night in detention in hospital, and not prison.
Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong
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Rescue teams in Pakistan have successfully pulled seven children and one man to safety. Their cable car was stranded high over a remote ravine for over 15 hours.
The high-risk operation in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was completed by the military and locals.
Shalu Yadav reports from Delhi.
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A group of scientists has found that climate change caused by humans has made Canada's wildfire season significantly worse.
The country is currently experiencing its worst fire season on record.
Ira Spitzer reports.
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Japan is monitoring and testing radioactive, treated wastewater for remaining isotopes ahead of releasing it into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday.
The government and energy company TEPCO is set to begin a decades-long process to discharge more than a million tons of water used to cool the wrecked Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.
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US stocks turned lower on Tuesday following disappointing earnings from household names.
Bank stocks turned south after several lenders were downgraded.
Sally Patterson has more.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to fresh charges on Tuesday.
He faced a new indictment accusing him of fraud and conspiracy in a New York Federal Court.
Last year, Bankman-Fried was charged by the U.S. government of orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history.
Earlier this month the 31-year-old was sent to jail after a judge revoked his bail.
Sally Patterson has more.
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West Africa's regional bloc, ECOWAS, has rejected a proposal by Niger's military junta to hold elections within three years.
The Junta finally agreed to start mediation talks with ECOWAS after initially refusing to open diplomatic channels with ECOWAS delegations sent since the coup in July.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja.
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Four more people have died in India's Himalayan region after torrential rains triggered flash floods.
More than 100 people have been killed and many more injured this year after an erratic rainy season.
Ishan Garg has the latest from New Delhi.
IN: Schools have...Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun a three-day visit to South Africa where he will attend the BRICS summit.
This is the first in-person BRICS meet since 2019 when the COVID pandemic hit.
At the sidelines of the summit, Mr Modi is expected to hold a series of bilaterals. The Indian government has not denied that a meeting with China's Xi Jingping could be on the cards, saying the Indian Prime Minister's schedule is still being finalised.
Shalu Yadav reports from New Delhi.
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CUE: The president of China, Xi Jinping, has arrived in South Africa for the fifteenth summit of BRICS … the international grouping of developing economies led by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Here’s Andrew Wood in Hong Kong
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Japan is set to begin discharging radioactive, treated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.
The government has planned the discharge for two years while accumulating more than a million tonnes of treated water, which has been stripped of most radionuclides in a special facility.
However, the water will still contain traces of the isotope tritium and the project has drawn criticism from Japan’s neighbours China and South Korea.
Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.
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