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Africa:Techpoint to Boost African-Owned Startups With U.S.$10,000 At Pitch Storm

[Guardian] Focusing on technologically enabled early stage startups in the stages of prototyping and building an actual product, Techpoint Africa is calling on these startups to participate in the Techpoint Build 2019 pitch storm where a startup will walk away with $10,000 equity-free.

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Africa:Rohr Continues Search for Players, List for South Africa Game Out November

[Guardian] Super Eagles Manager, Gernot Rohr says he is still searching for quality players to beef up his squad despite Nigeria's recent victories in the Cameroun 2019 African Nations Cup qualifying series.

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Africa:Using a Smartphone to Test for HIV, Flu, Dengue Fever

[East African] Scientists have developed an affordable, quick test for a number of common infectious diseases including HIV, flu and dengue fever.

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Africa:Nobel Laureate Urges End to Impunity On Rape As Weapon of War

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Yaounde -Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in 1999 to help women and girls who had been raped during the conflict in eastern Congo

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Africa:UN Fighting to End Virginity Testing

[This is Africa] A group of United Nations agencies has issued a joint statement calling for the ban of misleading and damaging tests meant to 'assess the virginity' of women and girls, a common practice in at least 20 countries.

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BBC NEWS - Migrant caravan: 'May God soften Trump's heart'

Thousands of Central American migrants are stuck at the Mexico-Guatemala border hoping to make it to the US.

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BBC NEWS - The tip-off from a Nazi that saved my grandparents

A Jewish tailor was advised to flee Denmark in 1943 by a German client. But why would this leading Nazi defy Hitler?

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BBC NEWS - Jamal Khashoggi: All you need to know about the Saudi journalist's death

Jamal Khashoggi died while visiting a Saudi consulate on 2 October. Here's what we know.

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BBC NEWS - Do you speak Telugu? Welcome to America

What's the fastest-growing language in the US?

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BBC NEWS - K-beauty: The rise of Korean make-up in the West

A revolution in Korean beauty trends has come to the UK, but why does it appeal so much to millennials?

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BBC NEWS - In pictures: Follow Ghana's 'yellow-brick road'

The artist who carpets streets in Accra with huge tapestries of yellow plastic squares.

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BBC NEWS - Why attacks on aid workers may hurt the world's poorest

The murder of a Nigerian aid worker raises questions about the targeting of humanitarian agencies.

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BBC NEWS - Your pictures: Markets

Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "markets".

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BBC NEWS - The day out that reunited an Indian boy with his family

Hassan Ali, who ran away aged six, finds his family nine years later after a day out in Delhi.

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BBC NEWS : The billionaires fuelling a space race

Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk are among a number of entrepreneurs with galactic ambitions.

October 21, 2018 at 05:25AM

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BBC NEWS : K-beauty: The rise of Korean make-up in the West

A revolution in Korean beauty trends has come to the UK, but why does it appeal so much to millennials?

October 21, 2018 at 05:21AM

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Human rights and journalists groups call for UN to intervene

NEW YORK, New York - The United States says it will wait a few more days before outlining its response to allegations concerning the disappearance of Washington Post correspondent Jamal Khashoggi,

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War drums beating again in Israel, new war on Gaza looms

GAZA CITY, Palestinian territories – A new Gaza War could be looming as a Cairo-led mediation on a ceasefire is faltering, and Israel has stepped up its rhetoric, advising it has established

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Afghans Vote Amid Taliban Threats, Fears of Fraud

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Afghans began voting Saturday in parliamentary elections overshadowed by chaotic organization, allegations of corruption and violence that has forced a postponement of the vote

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PPF condemns death threat to journalist in Paraguay

October 19, 2018 Freedom of Expression, Media Safety, Protest Letters by PPF Web Desk

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), in a letter to Mario Abdo Benitez, President of Paraguay has expressed c

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Thousands take to streets in London demanding second Brexit vote

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, front centre, holds a klaxon horn, as he joins protesters in the People's Vote March for the Future, in London. Picture: Yui Mok/PA via AP/African News Agency (ANA)

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Mega Millions lottery hits record $1.6bn

At least $1.6 billion, the largest jackpot in US lottery history, will be up for grabs during the next Mega Millions draw after no winning tickets were sold for Friday night's draw, the lotter

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At least 60 dead as train mows down crowd at religious festival in India

A man who was injured in a train accident receives treatment at a hospital in Amritsar, India. A speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival. Picture: Prabhjot Gi

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Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi died in a fight inside Istanbul consulate

Eighteen days after Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that the 59-year-old writer has died in what it said was a 'fistfight' inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbu

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WATCH: How I punched shark to escape attack at nudist beach

Sydney - A surfer who got bitten by a shark at an Australian nudist beach managed to make his break for freedom after punching the creature until it let him go, he said Saturday. Paul Kenny was rid

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Michael Cohen urges Americans to vote against ex-client Trump's party

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves federal court after reaching a plea agreement in New York. File picture: Craig Ruttle/AP...