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Archaeologists have unearthed a stash of 1,300-year-old gold and silver coins offered as "devil's money" at a rare medieval cult site in the Netherlands. The discovery gives a rare insight into ...

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and parts of Cameroon and Tanzania as the third largest river in the world by volume flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The Congo runs for 2,500 miles and zigzags the equator as it snakes its way ...

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Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

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President Trump’s moves to pause refugee resettlement, freeze foreign aid and suspend funds to promote democracy have added more chaos to one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises.

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