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UK parliament reject December election date

All Conservative MPs backed the motion but the vast majority of Labour MPs abstained.

Britain's parliament has rejected a plan by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to hold a general election in December to try to break the deadlock over Brexit.

More than 150 inmates have escaped from a prison in central Nigeria.

An Australian-led study has claimed to have pinpointed the birthplace of modern humans to a region south of the Zambesi River in southern Africa.

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