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French navy seizes nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine off West African coast

The French navy has seized nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine, worth $610m (£540m) off the coast of West Africa, French…

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BBC visits mpox clinic as WHO says DR Congo cases ‘plateauing’

Medics at the epicentre of the mpox outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have told the BBC there has…

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Week-long fire at Namibia’s Etosha National Park contained

A fire that ravaged a third of a Namibia's Etosha National Park is "now contained", according to the country's environment…

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