Malaysia scrambles fighter jets after 16 Chinese military aircraft fly toward Borneo

The Foreign Ministry of Malaysia on Tuesday said it would summon China's envoy to explain an "intrusion" by 16 People's Liberation Army Air Force planes into its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), after Malaysia's military detected "suspicious" activity over the South China Sea.
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Gunmen kill Ugandan minister's daughter and driver in 'targeted shooting'

The daughter of Ugandan government minister General Edward Katumba Wamala has been killed in a drive-by attack targeting the general outside his home in Kampala on Tuesday, Ugandan police said in a statement.
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Amid escalating violence, Colombia sends in troops

More than a month since Colombians first took to the streets this year to protest against a botched tax overhaul and the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, tensions across the country are escalating rapidly with more than a dozen deaths over the weekend -- and a risky new government tactic.
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Parents fear for kidnapped children, some as young as 4, after latest school raid in Nigeria

The father of some of the children abducted at gunpoint at a school in north central Nigeria has told CNN how four of his eight kids were taken by gunmen on Sunday. The youngest is just 5 years old.
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Belgium recalls ambassador to South Korea after his wife is filmed slapping a shop assistant

Belgium is recalling its ambassador to South Korea following an incident in which his wife was recorded striking a woman in Seoul.
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The bitter truth behind China's birth caps

• Hear parents in China react to new three-child policy
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Sri Lanka's burning cargo ship on track to become its 'worst environmental disaster'

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