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Zambia's Ministry of Education has closed primary and secondary schools in the country due to an ongoing cholera epidemic.
The students were meant to return next Monday but will resume on 29 January.
Daniel Kijo reports
CUE: China says it is "deeply shocked" by bomb blasts in Iran that killed more than eighty people. The Islamic State group said it was responsible for the attacks. Here's Andrew Wood in Hong Kong
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The first black president of Harvard University has described the rightwing campaign which lead to her resignation from the post as part of a "broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society".
Claudine Gay resigned after criticism centered on allegations of antisemitism and plagiarism in her academic work.
Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to the Middle East for continued diplomatic discussions on the Israel-Gaza war.
His trip to "a number" of countries, including Israel, comes as the Israeli army withdraws thousands of its troops from the Palestinian strip and shifts to lower-intensity military operations, following its ground offensive in the Hamas-run territory.
But the conflict also shows signs of escalating to the wider region, with a suspected Israeli strike on a Hamas leader in Lebanon, twin Islamic State bombings in Iran, and with Iran-funded Houthi militants in Yemen attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Benji Hyer reports.
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San Francisco has installed nets on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent people from jumping to their deaths.
Almost 2000 people have committed suicide in this way since the iconic bridge opened in 1937.
Ira Spitzer reports from San Francisco.
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The latest figures show that tourism in Hungary has returned to pre-pandemic levels. The resurgence is being led by domestic tourists rather than international visitors, a surprising development given the slow pace of consumer spending.
Pablo Gutierrez reports
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Authorities in Ukraine have said the death toll from the large-scale missile strikes carried out against Kyiv on December 29th has now risen to 32.
Megumi Lim reports from Kyiv
A new report finds that the bosses of the UKs biggest companies will earn more than the average worker's yearly salary in just three days.
According to calculations by the High Pay Centre think tank, FTSE 100 CEOs will make more than 44,000 US Dollars by Thursday afternoon in the UK.
Simon Gaitán reports.
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Arvind Kejriwal refused to appear before India's financial crimes agency for questioning for the third time on Wednesday, saying the proceedings were politically motivated.