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Figures showed Tuesday that nearly 600 police officers in England and Wales were sacked in the year to March 2024, as police chiefs battle to restore public confidence after a string of scandals.

At least 14 people, including several children, were killed in a Ugandan refugee camp when lightning hit a makeshift church, officials said Sunday. Around 50 people were praying in the church in Palabek refugee camp in northern Uganda on Saturday evening when a heavy storm hit the area.

Kamala Harris courted voters angered by the Gaza war while Donald Trump doubled down on violent rhetoric with a comment about journalists being shot as the tense US election campaign entered its final hours.

Two other works from the same series, showing former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Ntombi Tfwala of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, were abandoned on the street because the full haul did not fit in the getaway car.

Both women spoke to the media shortly after. Jen told her story in Vanity Fair magazine in the 1990s under the condition of anonymity, but a Harrods security official contacted her to threaten her and her family.

Botswana's opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has won a majority in parliament and can form the next government.

The city is blanketed in cancer-causing acrid smog each year, primarily blamed on stubble burning by farmers in neighbouring regions to clear their fields for ploughing and factories and traffic fumes.

The United Kingdom announced on Wednesday that it had detected the country's first case with the latest mpox variant, clade 1b. The majority of deaths have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the outbreak, which launched a vaccination drive earlier this month.

Those who breach the revised road traffic law can be punished with a maximum of six months in prison or a fine of up to 100,000 yen ($660).