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The World Health Organisation says Nigeria will receive 1,800 vials of diphtheria antitoxin, a medication used in the treatment of diphtheria disease, on August 2.
Diphtheria is a bacterial infection that affects the nose, throat, and sometimes, skin of an individual.
Correspondent Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja.
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House prices in the UK have recorded their biggest annual drop for 14 years.
New figures from the Nationwide Building Society show a 3.8% annual fall in July - the biggest since 2009.
The price of a typical home is now 4.5% below the August 2022 peak.
But despite the drop, house prices are still unaffordable for many people, with high interest rates also putting people off wanting to take out a mortgage.
Nationwide's Senior Economist Andrew Harvey said the problem is especially bad for those trying to get on the property ladder.
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Cities close to India's capital New Delhi are on the edge after three people died and forty-five others were injured in sectarian clashes.
The violence broke out on Monday during a religious procession in the Nuh (Pron: Noo) district – some 85 kilometers (53 miles) away from Delhi.
India correspondent Ishan Garg has the latest.
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It’s just announced restrictions on selling drones abroad, and limits on exports of rare metals used to make semiconductors, solar panels, and TV and computer screens start today [Tuesday, Aug 1]
Andrew Wood reports from Hong Kong
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Japan is issuing evacuation orders as a powerful typhoon barrels towards Okinawa in the country’s far west.
Typhoon Khanun (Ka-noon) is gathering strength and is expected to make landfall by Wednesday.
Chris Gilbert has more from Tokyo.
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Comedian Paul Reubens, who created the popular children's character Pee Wee Herman, has died at the age of 70.
Reubens rose to fame in the 1980s when Pee Wee Herman was a huge success in both film and television.
Ira Spitzer has more
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The UK's largest Teaching Union has called off further strikes in England for the Autumn term, having accepted the government's pay offer.
Strikes by teachers of the National Education Union (NEU) in England have forced many schools to close on eight days since February, and had passed a ballot in favour of more strikes before accepting the offer.
Simon Gaitán reports…
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US rapper Cardi B has become the latest celebrity to be hit by an object during a performance.
Fan footage shows an audience member throwing water over the musician in Las Vegas.
In response, Cardi B threw her microphone at the suspected perpetrator.
Sally Patterson reports.
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An aide to Donald Trump is making his first appearance in federal court on Monday where he faces charges of helping the former US President hide classified documents.
Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is accused by prosecutors of trying to delete security camera footage and lying to investigators.
Benji Hyer has more.
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There's set to be a major expansion of oil and gas extraction from the North Sea.
The UK government will issue at least 100 new licences for drilling to take place off the coast of Scotland.
Funding has also been announced for a massive new carbon capture project. The idea is to capture carbon dioxide emissions and then pump them into empty old oil and gas reservoirs in the North Sea.
The news has been greeted with anger by environmental groups, who have accused the UK government of greenwashing - and want more money to be spent on renewable energy generation.
Malcolm Grimston, an energy policy research fellow at Imperial College London, has said the plan raises "a real dilemma":
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