Current Affairs
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1.1KBillionaire Pinera to return as Chile’s president
Sebastian Pinera Santiago, Chile | AFP | Billionaire Sebastian Pinera will return to power as Chile’s president next year, according to virtually complete...
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1.3KAustria’s Sebastian Kurz, the world’s youngest leader at 31
Austrian Chancellor of the conservative People’s Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz and his partner Susanne Thier leave after the inauguration ceremony of the...
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1.1KBREAKING: Opposition MPs walks out of parliament
Katuntu (left), Nambooze and Gen Tumwine discuss during the break before a section of opposition MPs walked out as the report on...
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1.0KLIVE: Ssemujju thrown out of house again
MP Ssemujju Nganda speaks before he was thrown out of the house. PHOTO VIA @parliament_ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MPs...
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957Mourinho won’t give up on catching City
West Bromwich, United Kingdom | AFP | Jose Mourinho insisted Manchester United will not give up on the Premier League title race after...
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1.1KUS provides ARVS worth $18.7 million to Uganda
Ambassador Malac (left) and Minister Kasaija at the signing on Friday. COURTESY PHOTO Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United States has...
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1.1KKremlin’s new cyber weapons spark fears and fantasies
Moscow, Russia | AFP | From Donald Trump’s election to Brexit and the Catalan crisis, accusations that the Kremlin is meddling in Western...
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1.1KChina opens major economic conference
Beijing, China | AFP | China opened a major economic planning conference on Monday as the country tries to pivot away from its...
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902Spain breaks ring that used bank warehouses to grow marijuana
The discovered marijuana in the warehouse by Spanish Police Madrid, Spain | AFP | Spanish police said Sunday they had dismantled an...
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1.1KNigeria turns the page on literary past
Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of...
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1.1KKADAGA: Those are my bodyguards
Kadaga makes a ruling in parliament Monday. PHOTO VIA @parliament_ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The second reading of the constitution...
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956UN peacekeeping chief meets DR Congo president after attack
Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Friday visited the city of Goma to see around 30 peacekeepers wounded in the attack on their base in...