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Election: South Africa begins votes counting

Ballot counting was underway on Thursday after South Africans queued long into the night to vote in a watershed election, with partial results suggest

North Korea accused of sending faeces-filled balloons across border

North Korea was on Wednesday accused of sending hundreds of balloons containing rubbish and faeces across the heavily fortified border with South Kore

US based Nigerian, Yomi Faparusi, set to contest for US Congress

Yomi Faparusi, a Nigerian-American based in Tennessee in the United States, is vying as an independent candidate to represent Tennessee District 5 in

South Africa votes with long ANC dominance under threat

South Africa’s ruling ANC was fighting Wednesday to defy expectations that it could lose its three-decade-long exclusive grip on power, as voter

World’s first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers

The world’s first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft will be blasted off on a SpaceX rocke