Fifteen-year-old boy with dwarfism, Sadisu Buba Mahmud, has withdrawn from contesting a House of Representatives seat after he was found to have lied about his age.
Fifteen-year-old boy with dwarfism, Sadisu Buba Mahmud, has withdrawn from contesting a House of Representatives seat after he was found to have lied about his age.
Veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Wednesday with representatives of Brazil's booming Evangelical Christian community, seeking to woo votes from the key group, which largely backs his presidential election rival, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. The same poll found Lula leading the runoff race with 53 percent of valid votes to 47 percent for Bolsonaro.
Cameroon's army killed a dozen separatists during an operation in one of the country's troubled English-speaking regions, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. A large-scale operation in Djotin in the North West region on October 8 led to "a dozen terrorists being neutralised", defence ministry spokesman Colonel Cyrille Atonfack said in a statement.
Russia began evacuating civilians from Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday in the face of advances by Kyiv, which said the population transfers amounted to "deportations". - Creating 'panic' - A Ukrainian representative in the Kherson region called the push by Russia to evacuate the city of the same name the "equivalent of deportation".
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