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7 Alarming Facts About the Chikungunya Global Spread: WHO Issues Urgent Alert Amid Rising Cases in Europe and Africa
teleSUR
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The WHO warns of the Chikungunya global spread as outbreaks surge in the Indian Ocean, Africa, Asia, and now Europe. Discover the risks, symptoms, and urgent prevention measures. Related: Record 2025 Flash Floods Signal Rising Climate Risk in U.S....
Ugandan School Empowers Congolese Refugees
News Central TV
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July 28, 2025
Education for refugee children is often not guaranteed in their host countries. In Uganda, a special school for Congolese refugee girls ensures that its students do not get left behind. It’s a hot afternoon in Katwe, a suburb of Uganda’s capital,...
99% of Interfaith Marriage Bans Found in Muslim Nations
Patheos
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July 27, 2025
Using freedom of interfaith marriage as an indicator of religious pluralism, this study reveals that 99% of legal restrictions on interfaith unions are imposed by Islamic countries. Specifically, 32 out of 53 Muslim-majority countries (60.4%)...
WHO warns of rising Chikungunya cases as Kenya battles outbreak
The Standard
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A Mombasa County Health Department vehicle mounted with a fogging machine moves around buildings and streets spreading a cloud of fumigation in a bid to eradicate mosquito breeding areas, on February 10, 2018. [File, Standard] The World Health...
Revealed: Where 'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite REALLY is... as jihadi bride becomes mum-of-six in a polyamorous marriage with Islamic terror warlord she shares with two more women
Daily Mail
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July 26, 2025
White widow Samantha Lewthwaite has become the third wife of a fearsome warlord and mothered two more children while on the run as one of the world's most wanted terrorists, MailOnline can reveal. Lewthwaite - the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber...
Puntland Seizes Foreign Vessel for Illegal Entry Into Territorial Waters Near Conflict Zone
Shabelle Media Network
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July 21, 2025
GAROWE, July 21, 2025 – Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland state said on Sunday that a foreign vessel, MV Sea World, was seized after it was found unlawfully anchored off the coast of Bareeda for two consecutive days without notifying local...
Global mobility crisis
The Express Tribune
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July 27, 2025
Listen to article Henley & Partners has released its annual Henley Passport Index, placing Pakistan at 96th out of 99 positions — fourth from the bottom for the fourth consecutive year. The ranking is based on the number of visa-free and visa on...
Jay Slater cause of death confirmed as Mum gives heartbreaking statement
Chronicle Live
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July 25, 2025
11:23, 25 Jul 2025 Teenager Jay Slater tragically died after accidentally plummeting into a ravine in Tenerife whilst under the influence of a cocktail of drugs including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, a coroner has now determined. Jay, 19, from...
Shingaani Old Town
Atlas Obscura
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Shingaani, Shingani, Shangaani, Shangani, Shungani. The Somali language has a lot of flexibility and variation when it comes to spelling. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and however you spell this medieval city district, the ruins...
Road to Qatar
ABILITY Magazine
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Circa 2007 When Chet Cooper, from this fine magazine, called me up one Saturday and asked me if I wanted to go to a international disability conference in Doha, Qatar, I immediately said, “Sure, of course, wouldn’t miss it for the world,” not...
How France fuels migrant crisis in UK while taking £480m of your money
Daily Express
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July 26, 2025
The migrant crisis in Northern France has been getting worse as Britain and France agree a new (Image: Getty) Before the ink was dry on Keir Starmer’s ‘groundbreaking’ deal to return small boat migrants to France, the sniping began. Standing...
Inside Jay Slater's erratic behaviour in final hours from confused phone call to 'poison' fear
The Mirror
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July 25, 2025
The inquest into tragic teen Jay Slater’s death in Tenerife has heard details about how volatile he was in the hours before he vanished, if he was carrying knives and his fear over being poisoned Apprentice bricklayer Jay Slater’s disappearance in...
Suspected Al Shabaab Militia Attack Kenyan Village, GSU Camp
Kenyans.co.ke
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July 26, 2025
About 60 suspected Al Shabaab militants reportedly raided Basuba village, which is located within the Boni Forest in Lamu County. Reports indicate that the heavily armed militants invaded the village and opened fire indiscriminately, going after...
Mum who bakes for troops has fruit stolen from side of the road
Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser
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Louise Bennet, who has hit the headlines before by baking more than 350,000 cakes and biscuits for British servicemen and women, said five bags of fruit were taken from her stall by passing drivers. Ms Bennet, who sells the bagged fruit in front...
'I can be the one to make a change in my homeland'
BBC
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ShareSave Munirah Hashi, 27, wants to travel to Somaliland to make an impact there In a conference room overlooking Grangetown in Cardiff, chairs are set out and Welsh flags are hung alongside the tricolour flag of Somaliland, a self-declared...
This Islamic country was once a Buddhist nation, now denies citizenship to non-muslims, PM Modi recently visited here, it is...
DNA India
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Before Islam in Maldives, the number of Buddhists was very high, so Buddhism was prevalent there. Maldives is a tropical paradise of about 1200 islands, nestled between India and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. Its green islands and turquoise...
Little League World Series: Venezuelan team denied U.S. visas
Marco Eagle - Florida
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A Venezuelan Little League team has been denied U.S. visas, with Little League International announcing that the team will not be able to participate in the 2025 Little League Senior Baseball World Series. Cacique Mara, a team representing...
Lancashire Islamic extremist, 18, admits plotting terrorist gun attack
Lancs Live
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July 18, 2025
A teenage Islamic extremist from lancashire has pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist gun attack. Muhammad Billal, 18, was arrested on February 11 and charged with two counts of preparation of terrorist acts, relating to an alleged gun attack...
Can Somaliland’s Berbera Port anchor African trade security?
The National News
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While Houthi attacks in the Red Sea pose a clear and present danger to the vital trade artery and the rising port congestion in the region throws another spanner in the works, Africa needs another trade hub. Could Somaliland's port city of Berbera...
Hidden Hands Behind Incendiary Ethiopia-Eritrea Rhetoric
The Reporter Ethiopia
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July 26, 2025
Empty Bluffs or Drums of an Inevitable War? The exchange of yet another round of hostile rhetoric between the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea this week and the widening rift between political leaders in Addis Ababa and Mekelle have heightened...