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Nigeria's inflation rate has risen to 18.6 percent.
It's the highest since 2017 when it was 18.7 percent.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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India is expected to get its first tribal president, as the country's presidential election takes place on Monday.
64-year-old Droupadi [PRON: DROW-PAD-EE] Murmu is the frontrunner in the race.
Our correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports from Mumbai.
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The Hong Kong government is dismissing concerns about a brain drain in the city, amid a surge in the number of teachers quitting the profession, and families emigrating overseas. The trend comes as education chiefs promote controversial plans to increase the teaching of patriotism towards China.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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As extreme heat hits people across the world this week, new data shows June 2022 was one of the hottestJunes ever recorded.
That's according to both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Rachel Silverman has this report from San Francisco.
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A US House of Representatives committee has announced it'll meet next week to discuss banning assault weapons.
The bill would forbid "the sale, import, manufacture or transfer" of certain semi-automatic rifles.
The move comes in the wake of a series of mass shootings, including the worst school massacre in almost a decade in Uvalde, Texas, and a deadly attack during an Independence Day parade earlier this month in Illinois.
From Washington DC, Benji Hyer reports.
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A red extreme heat warning has been issued for parts of the UK next week.
Forecasters are urging people to significantly alter their normal routines, as the temperatures will pose a threat to life.
The predicted rise in temperature is part of the heatwave affecting much of Europe, which has caused wildfires and significant disruption.
John Bevir (Beaver) reports.
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The Nigerian government banning Twitter for 7 months was unlawful, according to a new judgment.
A court of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has also warned against a repeat of the suspension.
The site was blocked in Nigeria from June 2021 until January of this year.
Tesem Akende reports.
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Candidates in the UK Conservative Party leadership contest will face their first round of live television debates on Friday.
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come top in the first two rounds of voting, with trade minister Penny Mordaunt following in second place.
This comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced he would step down last week, with a new leader set to be in place by September.
Sally Patterson has more in London.
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