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Residents who escaped violence tell of bandits riding in on motorbikes and shooting indiscriminatelyArmed assailants on motorbikes killed at least 30 people and burned houses and shops during raids on three villages in northwest Nigeria’s Niger State early on Saturday, residents who escaped the violence told Reuters.The attacks on villages in the Borgu local government area, near the border with Benin Republic, are part of a surge in attacks blamed […]

Speaking with progressive YouTuber, former US president stressed ‘unprecedented nature’ of agency’s actionsBarack Obama publicly gave his support to demonstrators in Minneapolis for standing up to the “unprecedented nature” of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota.Speaking in an interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Saturday, the former president discussed the power that US citizens hold when standing up for the values they believe in and […]

Museum’s revitalised galleries bring together 250 objects to show how design shapes modern lifeWhat do the first ever baby monitor, Nigeria’s 2018 World Cup kit, an 80s boombox, the smashed parts of Edward Snowden’s computer, a “Please offer me a seat” badge and a Labubu have in common? They are all included in the V&A’s Design 1990-Now galleries, which reopen to the public this week.The galleries, which run across two […]

At his official installation, Archbishop Richard Moth recognised the Catholic church’s failures but insists it’s a time of ‘opportunity’The new leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales has said that the church has failed vulnerable people, urging more work to be done to address the struggle of refugees and learn from victims of abuse.At a ceremony where he was officially installed in his new role as archbishop of Westminster, […]

Luis Muñoz Pinto, 27, who was sent to notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador, would like to clear his name after US judge’s rulingA US federal judge’s order that some of the Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a notorious prison in El Salvador must be allowed to return to the United States to fight their cases has been greeted with hope and a sense of vindication – […]

Follow the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the game as Madrid have a chance to go top of La Liga.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Iranian families release footage online commemorating loved ones shot during nationwide antigovernment protests.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article