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Guinea set to re-elect president
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo appeared to be on track to extend his 36-year reign as Equatorial Guinea’s president. With the country going to the polls, major opposition parties have boycotted the elections, citing massive corruption and electoral fraud.
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Yemen kills 800 al Qaeda militants
A series of Yemeni military operations has killed around 800 al Qaeda-affiliated militants. Backed by air strikes from its Arab coalition, Yemeni troops wrestled Al Mukalla back, and captured a nearby oil terminal in the province.
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Anzac Day sees services worldwide
The commemoration of Australia and New Zealand’s role in the battle of the Somme will begin with a dawn service in France today. With over 8,500 troops dying each day of the 141-day battle, including a significant number of South African troops, there will be a number of commemorations over the course of 2016.
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Science seeks ethical end to chick shredding
A team of German scientists may have developed a way to preventing the widespread culling of male chicks at birth. Using a means of detecting the chicken’s sex before it is even hatched, and before any nerve cells are formed, the Dresden University team believes they can provide a means of culling a chick that is both painless and more efficient than shredding.
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Facts of the Day

Today is World DNA day. It celebrates the initial publishing of the findings on the structure of DNA in 1953.

Fact of the day: The Rosetta Stone is actually a tax document explaining the exemption status of a temple.

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