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Tickets for the Manchester benefit concert have sold out within 20 minutes of going on general sale. But some have been reserved for fans who attended Ariana Grande’s show at Manchester Arena, who had been promised free tickets to One Love Manchester. Fans eligible for the complimentary tickets had until 14:00 BST on Thursday to register for them. Robbie Williams ...

Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris accord on climate change on Thursday afternoon – deriding it as bad for American jobs and bad for the environment. He dared opprobrium from foreign leaders, environmentalists, scientists and celebrities to say he was putting the jobs of American workers first. ‘We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing ...

Maseru – Lesotho, which holds early legislative elections Saturday, is an African mountain kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa, on which its economy largely depends. But the kingdom also supplies its neighbour with most of its water. Water tower Lesotho is not only landlocked, it is hemmed in on all sides by the territory of just one other state, South ...

Tunis – A court in northern Tunisia handed one-month jail terms on Thursday to four men for eating in public during the Muslim dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan, a spokesperson said. The four had been “eating and smoking in a public garden, a provocative act during Ramadan”, which started last week, Chokri Lahmar, prosecution spokesperson at the court in Bizerte, ...

Some Ghanaians have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said. They say several children are among the dead. The Ghanaians and ...

Rescue workers are searching for the body of a Catholic bishop in a river in Cameroon after he went missding two days ago. The death of the Bishop of Bafia, Jean Marie Benoit Balla, has been confirmed by the Archbishop of Doula, Samuel Kleda, who is also the president of the Episcopal Council Bishop Baila’s car has been found along ...

A powerful vehicle bomb has hit the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 80 people and injuring 350. It struck close to the German embassy in Zanbaq Square, with civilians said to be the main casualties. The morning rush-hour blast was so strong it blew out windows and doors hundreds of metres away. The Taliban have ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man convicted of killing four people in Omaha in 2013 has been given Nebraska’s first death sentence since the state’s voters reinstated the punishment in November. A three-judge panel issued its ruling Tuesday in the case of Nikko Jenkins, who was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths. The ...

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the jawbone, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath in the UK, suggests Africa had its own distinct dinosaur fauna, until the asteroid strike ...

Abuja (AFP) – The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria’s minister for women said on Tuesday. Speaking at a ceremony welcoming 82 newly rescued girls to a government rehabilitation facility in Abuja, Aisha Alhassan said all the girls will be heading back to class in September, without specifying ...