Topic: Africa — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-18 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Egypt] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From Algerian oilfields to Moroccan battery factories and Egypt’s industrial base, Beijing may now fast-track projects across the region
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[2026-04-18 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: One of dozens of ostrichs that roam Stuart Barden's farm south of Nairobi. (ABC News: Bill Ormonde)
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[2026-04-18 07:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Morreu nesta sexta-feira (17/04) o ex-jogador de basquete brasileiro Oscar Schmidt, aos 68 anos. Ele estava em sua casa, no bairro de Alphaville, na Grande São Paulo, quando passou mal e foi internado às pressas no hospital.
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[2026-04-18 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O maquinista de um trem regional que ia de Herrenberg para Tübingen, no sul da Alemanha, se deparou nesta quinta-feira (16/04) com uma caixa esquecida entre as poltronas. Logo viu que não era um caso para os Achados e Perdidos, mas para a Polícia Federal. No pacote estava escrito "Aranhas e Escorpiões".
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[2026-04-18 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Com uma comitiva composta de dezenas de ministros e empresários, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva desembarca neste fim de semana em Hannover, na Alemanha, para cumprir uma agenda recheada de temas econômicos e dar continuidade à reaproximação que tem ocorrido entre o Brasil e o país europeu desde 2023.
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[2026-04-18 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: No Irã, mais de 93 milhões de pessoas vivem sob a sombra de uma guerra que pode voltar a explodir a qualquer momento. Após o colapso temporário das negociações de paz entre os Estados Unidos e o Irã no Paquistão, Washington passou a bloquear o Estreito de Ormuz. O objetivo é cortar as receitas iranianas com as exportações de petróleo e impedir que Teerã cobre pedágios pela passagem pelo estreito.
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[2026-04-18 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Quando o uzbeque Javokhir Sindarov foi para a final do Torneio Mundial dos Candidatos de Xadrez, ele já sabia que sairia vitorioso. Após uma campanha de destaque contra oito oponentes, bastou um empate contra Anish Giri, holandês nascido na Rússia e de pai nepalês, para que ele garantisse seu lugar no Campeonato Mundial.
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[2026-04-18 05:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: فریدریش مرتس، صدراعظم آلمان روز جمعه ۱۷ آوریل (۲۸ فروردین) گفت، این که جمهوری اسلامی تنگه هرمز را را با قید و شرط باز کرده، "خبر خوبی" است.
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[2026-04-18 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Fifteen people who were deported from the United States have arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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[2026-04-18 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: در هفتههای گذشته و پس از آغاز دور جدید جنگ میان آمریکا و اسرائيل علیه جمهوری اسلامی نام کُردهای ایرانی بار دیگر به مرکز توجهات رسانهای و سیاسی جهان بازگشتە است.
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[2026-04-18 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Believers slept overnight on mats to hear the address from the pontiff, who has drawn Trump’s ire with his anti-war comments
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[2026-04-18 03:15 UTC+10:00] [Angola] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Believers slept overnight on mats to hear the address from the pontiff, who has drawn Trump’s ire with his anti-war comments
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[2026-04-18 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: No início desta semana, quando o chanceler federal alemão, Friedrich Merz, falou por telefone com o primeiro‑ministro israelense, Benjamin Netanyahu, parecia se tratar de mais um expediente rotineiro entre líderes mundiais.
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[2026-04-18 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, left, son of former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, appears with co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze at the Alexandra Magistrates Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, April 17, 2026, after submitting partial guilty pleas on separate charges linked to a February shooting at his home. (AP Photo/Kayleen Morgan)
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[2026-04-18 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: More than 120,000 people have joined Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon for an open-air Mass, the biggest crowd so far during his 11-day Africa tour.
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[2026-04-18 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: فاطمه پسندیده و عاطفه رمضانزاده، ملیپوشان سابق فوتبال زنان ایران که به استرالیا پناهنده شدهاند، از دولت این کشور بهدلیل ارائه "پناهگاهی امن" تشکر کردند.
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[2026-04-18 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Um grupo de pesquisadores descobriu restos fossilizados de um embrião de Lystrosaurus, um pré-mamífero que habitou a Terra há cerca de 250 milhões de anos.
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[2026-04-18 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Enquanto a Rússia já controla quase toda a região de Lugansk, no leste da Ucrânia, cerca de 18% da vizinha Donetsk estão fora do domínio russo, segundo declarou o porta‑voz do Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, em 12 de abril.
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[2026-04-18 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Usuários de plataformas de jogos de azar na União Europeia podem processar a operadora de apostas para obter o reembolso de suas perdas caso tais jogos sejam proibidos em seu país de origem no momento em que fizeram as apostas, decidiu o Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia (TJUE) nesta quinta-feira (16/04).
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[2026-04-18 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
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[2026-04-18 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: After being deported from the United States, around 15 people touched down in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, early Friday.
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[2026-04-18 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: As Forças Armadas alemãs (Bundeswehr) registraram, no primeiro trimestre deste ano, um aumento expressivo no número de interessados em seguir carreira militar. Segundo dados divulgados pelo Ministério da Defesa do país, cerca de 22,7 mil pessoas se candidataram a uma carreira militar entre janeiro e março, o que representa um crescimento de 20% em relação ao mesmo período do ano passado.
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[2026-04-18 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網)《南德意志報》分析文章指出,伊朗戰爭爆發數周以來,中國憑借龐大的石油儲備和價格調控,受到的影響相對有限。但隨著美國總統川普下令封鎖霍爾木茲海峽,中國的處境突然變得異常艱難。這篇題為《中國突然遭受雙重打擊》的文章寫道:
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[2026-04-18 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網)過去5年,世界第二大經濟體中國與歐洲第三大市場義大利之間的貿易額每年都超過700億美元。
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[2026-04-18 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The son of Zimbabwe’s late former leader Robert Mugabe has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a high-profile shooting case in South Africa.
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[2026-04-18 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: بر اساس آمار "سالنامه اعتیاد" که از سوی "مرکز اصلی مسائل اعتیاد آلمان" منتشر شده است، در آلمان هر سال ۴۴ هزار مورد مرگ و هفت میلیون مورد درمان در بیمارستان به مصرف الکل نسبت داده میشود. این ارقام در حد تلفات یک شهر متوسط هستند.
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[2026-04-17 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
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[2026-04-17 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A colorful collection of shoes cross the starting line at the start of the 2017 Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass., Monday, April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, file)
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[2026-04-17 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Iran war and resulting global energy shock are driving some countries in Africa and Asia to ramp up nuclear power generation.
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[2026-04-17 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網)國際人權組織人權觀察表示,中國正加大施壓力度,迫使天主教地下教會信徒加入受國家管控的官方教會。該人權組織周三(4月15日)在紐約發表聲明稱,近年來北京已加強對全國約1200萬名天主教徒的意識形態管控、監視和出行限制,而梵蒂岡與中國於2018年簽訂的主教任命協議為這些鎮壓行動提供了便利。
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[2026-04-17 23:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: وزرات امور خارجه آمریکا با انتشار بیانیهای در روز پنجشنبه ۱۶ آوریل اعلام کرد که سیاست جدید به این وزارتخانه اجازه میدهد، ویزای افرادی که عمداً از طرف کشورهای رقیب برای "تضعیف منافع آمریکا" اقدام میکنند را محدود کند.
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[2026-04-17 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El delantero portugués Cristiano Ronaldo carga el trofeo de campeones tras la victoria ante España en la final de la Liga de Naciones de la UEFA, el lunes 9 de junio de 2025, en Múnich. (AP Foto/Martin Meissner)
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[2026-04-17 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網)國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)和世界銀行周四(4月16日)宣佈,在中斷聯繫七年後,現恢復與委內瑞拉的往來。
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[2026-04-17 22:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O Fundo Monetário Internacional (FMI) e o Banco Mundial anunciaram nesta quinta-feira (16/04) que restabeleceram relações com a Venezuela, após um hiato de sete anos.
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[2026-04-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 17 (Yonhap) -- Jung Hai-ung, the foreign ministry's special envoy to the Republic of the Congo, has attended the inauguration ceremony of President Denis Sassou Nguesso, the foreign ministry said Friday.
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[2026-04-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) decidiu, por unanimidade, nesta sexta-feira (17/04) derrubar uma lei de Santa Catarina que vetava a adoção de cotas raciais e outras ações afirmativas em universidades e instituições de ensino superior que recebem recursos do governo estadual.
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[2026-04-17 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: (德國之聲中文網) 「我們正面臨歷史上最大的能源危機,」國際能源署(IEA)署長比羅爾(Fatih Birol)周四在接受美聯社專訪時直言不諱。他發出了一個嚴峻的預警:歐洲目前的航空燃油儲備可能「僅剩大約六周」。比羅爾指出,如果霍爾木茲海峽的封鎖持續,很快就會出現由於「缺乏燃油」導致從A城市飛往B城市的航班被迫取消的消息。
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[2026-04-17 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV has addressed a massive crowd in Cameroon, using one of the biggest stages of his Africa tour to preach a message of justice and nonviolence.
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[2026-04-17 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Os representantes dos Estados Unidos e do Irã nas negociações de paz em Islamabad, na semana passada, não conseguiram chegar a um acordo, com uma questão fundamental que se mostrou o principal ponto de discórdia: o programa nuclear iraniano.
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[2026-04-17 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Efectivos del ejército de Nigeria realizan tareas de seguridad durante un evento en Minna, Nigeria, el 22 de diciembre de 2025. (AP Foto/Sunday Alamba, archivo)
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[2026-04-17 21:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: پلیس بریتانیا روز جمعه ۱۷ آوریل (۲۸ فروردین) سه نفر را متهم کرد که در ارتباط با یک حمله نافرجام آتشسوزی عمدی علیه دفاتر مرتبط با شبکه تلویزیونی ایران اینترنشنال در شمالغرب لندن دست داشتهاند.
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[2026-04-17 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: "Não há condições assim além da necessidade de tomar medidas urgentes para emendar os desafios de hoje. Então, continuamos a discutir para encontrarmos um conjunto de detalhes específicos para um programa, mas não existem assim condições", disse o representante residente do FMI em Moçambique.
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[2026-04-17 20:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a passenger bus in northcentral Nigeria ‘s Benue state on Thursday, abducting some students on their way to sit university examinations, officials said.
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[2026-04-17 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KINSHASA, República Democrática de Congo (AP) — Unas 15 personas deportadas desde Estados Unidos aterrizaron en Kinshasa, la capital de República Democrática de Congo, en la madrugada del viernes, informó su abogada.
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[2026-04-17 20:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: رهبری نظامی میانمار تمامی احکام اعدام صادرشده در این کشور را لغو کرده است. در بیانیهای که روز جمعه ۱۷ آوریل (۲۸ فروردین) از سوی مین آنگ هلینگ، فرمانده پیشین ارتش منتشر شد، آمده است: «مجازات محکومان به اعدام به حبس ابد تبدیل میشود.»
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[2026-04-17 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Operarios arreglan una cerca metálica alrededor de la central nuclear de Rooppur en Ishwardi, en Pabna, Bangladesh, el 4 de octubre de 2023. (AP Foto/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
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[2026-04-17 20:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Around 15 people deported from the United States landed in Congo’s capital Kinshasa in the early hours of Friday, their lawyer said.
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[2026-04-17 20:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: 焦點
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[2026-04-17 19:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Diante do aumento das tensões globais, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aposta em uma "parceria estratégica" com a Alemanha para fortalecer o multilateralismo. "Estou convencido de que o multilateralismo é indispensável. Somente por meio dele podemos atender às demandas de nossos povos e de toda a humanidade por paz, sustentabilidade e prosperidade compartilhada", escreveu Lula em um artigo publicado nesta sexta-feira (17/04) pelos jornais alemães Tagesspiegel e Handelsblatt.
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[2026-04-17 19:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President of Kering Middle East and Africa is in charge of some of the fashion world's biggest names
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