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Queen Elizabeth’s committal service will take place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and will be the scene of some of the most symbolic moments of the day’s ceremonies. The late Queen agreed to most elements of the service. Several of the organ pieces to be played in the chapel…

As from Monday, Senegal marks to be West Africa’s largest-ever proportion of women MPs in a newly elected legislature. As cautioned in politics by Aminata Toure; a former prime minister and incoming MP for President Macky, female pioneers encounter resistance and suspicion. In Senegal’s next National Assembly, more than 44…

Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across most parts of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June. The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic…

In actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s murder case, two more people have been arrested, including a drug dealer and the owner of the Goa restaurant where she was seen partying the night before her death. This brings the total number of arrests in the Haryana BJP leader’s death case…

Mexico’s former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam is the most senior figure arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 which traumatized the nation. Jesus Murillo Karam, 74, will be tried on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice, the Federal Judiciary Council said after…

Itaru Nakamura, commissioner general of the National Police Agency announcesd his resignation. This is after an investigation confirmed “shortcomings” in the security plans for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Mr. Nakamura said he would take responsibility for the failings and step down from his post as police chief. “We…

Aston Villa and Watford agreed a transfer fee in excess of £25M on Saturday and Sarr was due to have medical on Monday. Watford forward Ismaila Sarr’s proposed move to Aston Villa has fallen through. Sarr’s personal terms and the structure of the move led to misunderstandings. Sarr was not…

Witnesses say at least 11 people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a government building in southern Somalia. District Commissioner Abdillahi Ali Waafow was among those killed in Wednesday’s attack, the secretary-general of the Marka town administration in the Lower Shabelle region, Mohamed…

Nearly 3,600 cases of monkeypox have been reported in the US as of Tuesday, with at least one confirmed case in almost every state, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration is currently weighing whether to declare…

A military appeal court in Tunisia has sentenced a prominent political opponent of President Kais Saied to one year in prison and banned him from practising law for five years. A lawyer for Seifeddine Makhlouf said his client had been charged with insulting a judge, and that the verdict was…