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Item 500 dead in Syria regime's Aleppo assault(Daily monitor, 2016-12-02) AFPA Russian-backed regime onslaught in northern Syria was reported Wednesday to have killed more than 500 people this month, as Turkey faced new pressure to open its border to people fleeing the violence. World powers urged Russia to end its air strikes, which a senior US official said were "directly enabling" the Islamic State group, and the UN Security Council met to discuss the conflict.Item Kenya launches voter registration for 2017 polls(Daily monitor, 2016-02-18) AFPKenya launched a voter registration drive Monday for elections in August 2017, in a bid to push numbers to a record 25 million voters. "We are urging Kenyans to turn up in large numbers and register as voters," Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chief Isaack Hassan said at the launch in Nairobi.Item Lawyer denied access to jailed Rwandan leader(Daily monitor, 2016-02-18) AFPA lawyer representing jailed Rwandan opposition figure Victoria Ingabire has said he is being blocked from seeing his client ahead of her appeal before an African rights court, according to correspondence seen by AFP Tuesday.Item Liberia's Weah pledges to alter 'racist' constitution(Daily Monitor, 2018-02-01) AFPLiberian President George Weah has said he would seek to remove "racist" clause that restricts citizen ship to black people, and pledged to take a pay cut in a dire economy.Item Opposition street protests paralyse Kinshasa(Daily monitor, 2016-02-18) AFPA strike called by the opposition to warn DR Congo's president Joseph Kabila against trying to cling to power closed most shops and schools in Kinshasa yesterday. The usually bustling city of 10 million people seemed eerily quiet with few buses and pedestrians on the streets and a stoppage by taxis and motorcycle taxis also preventing people from getting to work.Item Pope Francis injects new blood into cardinals club(New Vision, 2017-06-30) AFPPope Francis on Wednesday created five new cardinals in a Vatican ceremony that, while deeply traditional in form, also reflected his vision of a reshaped Church for the 21st century.Item Pope to defend migrants at Mexico-US border Mass(Daily monitor, 2016-02-18) AFPPope Francis will celebrate an unprecedented Mass straddling both sides of the Mexico-US border on Wednesday to address the plight of migrants fleeing misery and crime in their homelands. The 79-year-old pontiff wraps up an intense, five-day trip to Mexico with a visit to Ciudad Juarez, the world's former murder capital, where he will pray with inmates at a prison and lead the service at the border.Item Senegal top court rejects president's bid to cut them(Daily monitor, 2016-02-18) AFPSenegalese leader Macky Sall said Tuesday the country's top court has rejected his proposal to cut his current presidential term by two years to five.Item Sex abuse scandal haunts top Catholic cardinal(New Vision, 2017-06-28) AFPFrom country priest to trusted top Vatican aide, the rise of Australia's most senior Catholic cleric George Pell has been plagued in its twilight by sordid controversies from thee past.Item Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade(New Vision, 2017-07-10) AFPWorld leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump on Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hip G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economics.Item Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade(New Vision, 2017-07-10) AFPWorld leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump on Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industralised and emerging economies.Item Trump rips into Republicans after healthcare defeat(New Vision, 2017-07-31) AFPPresident Donald Trump lashed out at fellow Republicans in Congress on Saturday after suffering a major setback when the senate failed to repeal and replace Obamacare.