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Xi sends sympathy message to Biden over Covid infection
Xi sends sympathy message to Biden over Covid infection
World
by  AFP

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a sympathy message to his United States counterpart Joe Biden on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, a day after the 79-year-old US leader tested positive for Covid-19. "I would like to express my deep sympathies to you and wish you a speedy recovery," Xi wrote in the message, CCTV reported.

Kenyan poll body slams arrest of vote contractors
Kenyan poll body slams arrest of vote contractors
Africa
by  AFP

Kenya's electoral authority has condemned the "brazen" arrest in Nairobi of three officials from a company supplying electronic voting systems for next month's presidential. "The brazen decision of the security authorities to arrest, detain and confine in a solitary hideout the three personnel without justification, is an exhibition of intimidation," it said.

Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor
Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: monitor
World
by  AFP

A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria's rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said. Syria's war has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes. aya/it

Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
World
by  AFP

At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured garbage bags. - Garbage 'buffet' - Soriano estimates that "about 70 percent of storks no longer migrate" to Africa, mainly because of the easily available food they can find in Spain in landfills.