Cyclone Freddy is expected to make landfall again in Mozambique later this week after it struck Madagascar for a second time on Monday. It killed four people on the Indian…
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Tanzania: Forex reserves running low
Tanzania and her East African neighbours are facing a foreign currency reserve crisis. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tanzania had received requests to offer guarantees for their fuel imports. She…
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Ukraine has denied any involvement in September’s attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany. The denial follows a report from the…
USA: Two of four survive Mexican kidnapping
Two of the four Americans kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico last week are dead and two are alive and now back in the US, Mexican and US officials say. Four…
Japan: JAXA forced to destroy flagship H3 rocket in failed launch
Japan was forced to blow up its new rocket during a failed launch on Tuesday, setting back efforts to crack a market led by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Its space agency…
Pakistan: Nine security officers killed in suicide attack
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