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Abolish castration law – Amnesty urges Madagascar

https://bbc.com/africalive Madagascar should abolish a new law which allows for the chemical and surgical castration of people convicted of raping…

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Sebastián Piñera: Former president of Chile dies in helicopter crash

By Ione Wells in São Paulo and Patrick Jackson in London BBC News Chilean ex-President Sebastián Piñera, who served two…

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Atmospheric river: Three killed as record rainfall drenches California

By Ido Vock and Max Matza BBC News At least three people have been killed by falling trees as a…

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Chile forest fires: At least 112 dead in Valparaíso region

By Malu Cursino BBC News At least 112 people have been killed by forest fires in Chile's Valparaíso region, local…

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Abuja sisters’ kidnapping: Nigeria police did not free them, we paid ransom, family says

By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja Nigerian police had no role in rescuing four sisters and their cousin from kidnappers,…

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Entire UK facing gales and downpours as Storm Isha blows in

Image caption, A tree brought down by Storm Isha fell over a car in Belfast on Sunday evening By Sam Hancock…

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China: At least 47 buried after landslide in Yunnan – state media

By Fan Wang BBC News At least 47 people have been buried in a landslide on Monday morning in the…

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Nearly 90 dead after fierce winter storms strike US

By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington Nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded across the US after the country…

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Vadodara boat accident: India schoolchildren were ‘not given life jackets’

By Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Parents of school students who were on the boat that capsized in a lake…

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Ibadan explosion in Nigeria: ‘The roof fell on my mother in bed’

By Adedayo Okedare BBC News Yoruba, Ibadan A deadly blast that rocked the Nigerian city of Ibadan overnight was caused…

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