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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.

These are headlines published by other newsrooms, not Hornafrika reporting. We show the headline, a short extract and a link; the full article stays with the publisher who wrote it, and copyright in each headline and extract remains with that publisher. How the wire works

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The Guardian — AfricaInternationalAFP in Cairo5 Sept 2026

Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death for drug crime

Sarah Khalifa, 39, charged with forming organised criminal gang to manufacture and traffick drugs An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalBen Quinn5 Sept 2026

Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail

Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him The leader of a flag campaign group who was arrested on suspicion of causing religiously and racially aggravated…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalWilliam Christou5 Sept 2026

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner land in Moscow aiming to revive Ukraine talks

US envoys expected to meet Vladimir Putin before going to Kyiv, after peace efforts floundered in recent months The US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Moscow to try to resuscitate a deal to end Russia’s invasion of…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalPippa Crerar, Heather Stewart and Jessica Elgot5 Sept 2026

‘The chancellor is in a bind’: is No 11 at odds with Burnham’s big vision?

MPs applaud PM’s ambition and optimism but John Healey has yet to show he can match leader’s radical perspective Until now, Andy Burnham has been a lucky prime minister. In office for just over six weeks, no major domestic crisis derailed…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalPress Association5 Sept 2026

London Paddington fire causes rail chaos as Heathrow trains cancelled

Blaze causes electricity supply failure and disruption of services to airport and Reading A fire near a train track in the London Paddington area has caused major disruption, with services to Heathrow airport cancelled. The fire caused an…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalBen Quinn and Peter Walker5 Sept 2026

‘I wasn’t even listening,’ Farage says of donations scandal meeting

Reform UK leader maintains innocence in overseas funding controversy on last day of party conference UK politics live Nigel Farage has claimed that he “wasn’t even listening” during a meeting at the centre of a controversy about whether…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalMarina Dunbar and agencies5 Sept 2026

US military says it struck three Iranian tankers after American warships came under missile attack

Officials said US aircraft carrier and destroyer avoided attacks before three Iranian tankers were struck by the US The US military said Saturday it struck three Iranian oil tankers after US navy warships came under missile attack, further…

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