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Nigeria calls for calm after US, UK warn of 'terror' threat
Nigeria calls for calm after US, UK warn of 'terror' threat
by  AFP

Western embassies in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday advised their citizens in the country to limit their movements due to what they called a higher threat of a "terror" attack, despite appeals for calm from the authorities.

Bangladesh evacuates hundreds of thousands ahead of cyclone
Bangladesh evacuates hundreds of thousands ahead of cyclone
by  AFP

Hundreds of thousands of people were being evacuated Monday from the path of a cyclone careening towards densely populated, low-lying Bangladesh, according to officials. The 1970 Bhola cyclone, one of the world's worst natural disasters, killed several hundred thousand people in Bangladesh -- then known as East Pakistan -- and India.

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