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Liz Truss, the former prime minister of the UK, criticised her successor Rishi Sunak on Sunday for having harmful tax policies. Sunak was also under pressure from another former prime minister, Boris Johnson, over his plan for Ukraine.
World

Former British premier criticises successor’s policies as pressure builds

General Pervez Musharraf, who led Pakistan as president from 1999 to 2008 and took power in a bloodless coup, has died at the age of 79, according to the Daily Mail.
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Former Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf passes on at 79

Fumio Kishida, the prime minister of Japan, has fired one of his secretaries for making homophobic remarks that he called outrageous.
World

Japanese premier dismisses aide over homophobic comments

Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into allegations that the Ukrainian military apparently used prohibited antipersonnel landmines in the northeastern district of Izyum while it was under Russian occupation.
World

HRW asks Ukraine to investigate military usage of prohibited mines

Shootings are common in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest murder rates, fuelled by gang violence and alcohol [Jonathan Bachman-Reuters]
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South Africa: Gunmen kill eight people at birthday party

The company has locations in Beijing and Luxembourg and goes by Spacety China.
World

Chinese firm sanctioned for helping Russia’s Wagner Group

In a guilty verdict handed down on July 27, 2012, Dwight Sagaray, the first secretary at the Venezuelan embassy, was found responsible for the death of Olga Fonseca.
World

Venezuelan diplomat convicted for murder

Pope Francis will go to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan next week. He will bring a message of peace and reconciliation to these two conflict-ridden countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
World

Pope Francis to visit war-torn DR Congo, South Sudan

Peter Michael Ifeanyi, a Nigerian computer engineer also known by his pseudonym, Peter Yaw Asare, was sentenced to 450 days in prison by the Madina District Court for two failed attempts to get a Ghanaian passport.
World

Nigerian national imprisoned for trying to acquire Ghanaian passport

Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has called out individuals who seek wealth and power at the expense of others, urging them to be more like Jesus Christ, the Christian divinity, who was poor during his time on earth.
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Pope Francis: Homosexuality not a crime

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