5 h. ago Ghana receives 14 West African nationals deported from the US

Ghana's President John Mahama says his country has received a group of 14 West African deportees from the United States

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14 h. ago The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

Toronto film festival: French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centreAfter trips to space (2018’s High Life) and Nicaragua (2022’s Stars at Noon), the French director Claire Denis has returned to more familiar territory: post-colonial west Africa. Denis, who grew up in several Francophone African countries, has made several movies that inquire into the troubled heart of such places, and now reaches into that well again for her new film, The Fence. In some ways, the film is hallmark Denis, flinty and strange and sometimes inscrutable. But it is also a disappointment, a leaden film whose points Denis has made more convincingly elsewhere.The Fence is based on a 1979 play by the late Bernard Marie-Koltès called Black Battles with Dogs. It tells the story of three white people living in a protected construction zone in a rural part of an unnamed west African nation. A fatal accid...

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1 week ago Australian government signs deal to deport former detainees to the tiny island country of Nauru

Australia and Nauru signed an agreement on Friday to allow the Australian government to deport formerly detained people without valid visas to the tiny island nation

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1 week ago Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plans are ‘beneath us as a nation’, UK’s top bishop says

Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell argues Reform UK leader’s radical proposals to ‘send them all back’ go against the British way

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2 w. ago A look at Uganda, the east African nation where the US is set to deport Abrego Garcia

Uganda has agreed to receive immigrants deported from the United States

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2 w. ago How to make the perfect fish finger sandwich – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

Everyone in the UK has an opinion on this British classic, and here is our resident perfectionist’s I must be the only person in Britain not to have grown up with fish finger sandwiches – we always had them with mash and peas – but after discovering them on pub menus as an adult, it wasn’t hard to see the appeal. These crunchy batons of firm, creamy fish in soft white bread, often topped with a tangy sauce, are surely the UK equivalent of Mexican fish tacos or West African fish rolls – a quick, nutritious and very satisfying light meal or snack.(NB: if you’re skim-reading this before leaping below the line to demand to know who needs a recipe for a fish finger sandwich, I can assure you a lot of people online seem to feel there’s a demand.) Given their popularity (indeed, this column was a reader request), I must echo Helen Graves, who prefaces her recipe thus: “I am bracing myself for the comeback on this one, because everyone (or at least everyone in the UK) has an opinion on what...

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3 w. ago Major new assessment recognises four separate giraffe species for the first time

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

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3 w. ago From swamps to fields: Trump's new Alligator Alcatraz is a Cornhusker Clink to detail migrants

Nebraska announced the Midwest will be home to the latest installment of President Donald Trump's nationwide deportation depots.

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4 w. ago The Medieval Brits with West African ancestry: Bodies buried in 7th

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history.

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4 w. ago Archaeologists perplexed to find West African ancestry in early medieval England

Findings show clear signs of non-European ancestry of buried individuals with affinity to present-day groups living in sub-Saharan West Africa

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