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United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit Nigeria and three other African countries next week.
They include Cape Verde, Ivory Coast and Angola.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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Bolt, the ride-hailing app company, has immediately increased its fares with prices increasing by 5 percent in Tanzania's commercial city of Dar es Salaam and exceeding 10 percent in other cities in Tanzania.
Daniel Kijo reports
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Japan is aiming to become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon as it attempts a precision landing on Friday.
If successful Japan’s ‘SLIM’ probe will take samples of the lunar surface to survey for water and the possibility for lunar habitation.
Chris Gilbert reports from Tokyo.
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At least fourteen children and two teachers have been killed when the boat they were on capsized on a lake in the Indian state of Gujarat, according to police.
The incident occurred during a school outing on Thursday.
Rebecca Bundhun reports.
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India's foreign minister S Jaishankar met his Maldivian counterpart Moosa Zameer and have reportedly discussed Maldives' request for Indian troops withdrawal from the island nation by March 15.
Mr Jaishankar said the two had a "frank conversation" on bilateral ties at a summit in Kampala.
Priyata Brajabasi has more
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CUE: North Korea says it's tested an underwater attack drone that can carry a nuclear weapon.
The government news agency says the test is a protest against this week's military drills held jointly by South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong
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Children's lives could have been saved if police had acted sooner when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas - according to a US justice department investigation.
The damning report details "critical failures" in the response, as roughly 400 officers waited for more than an hour while a gunman continued his massacre inside two classrooms.
19 students and two teachers were killed.
Kate fisher reports from Washington
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Children's lives could have been saved if police had acted sooner when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas - according to a US justice department investigation.
The damning report details "critical failures" in the response, as roughly 400 officers waited for more than an hour while a gunman continued his massacre inside two classrooms.
19 students and two teachers were killed.
Kate fisher reports from Washington
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A US government report released Thursday details the "critical failures" in the delayed police response to a school shooting in the state of Texas.
The Justice Department's investigation found children's lives could have been saved if law enforcement officers had acted sooner.
In May 2022, a gunman opened fire at a primary school, killing 19 students and two teachers.
Sally Patterson has more.
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Lawmakers in the United States are racing against the clock to avert a partial government shutdown, with just a day left until funding runs dry.
Both chambers of Congress — the House of Representatives and the Senate — must pass a short-term extension by the end of Friday, but recent history shows that consensus can be hard to come by on Capitol Hill.
From Washington, Benji Hyer reports.
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United States authorities will return $8.9 million recovered from the state of New Jersey on behalf of Nigeria.
The money was looted by Nigerian government officials to acquire property in 2014.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports.
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