World News: 18 September 2022

'They need to apologize': Africans on the monarchy
South Africa became a republic in 1961. By then the enforced racial segregation of apartheid had been law for 13 years, nine of them with Queen Elizabeth II as monarch.

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Powerful Typhoon makes landfall in southern Japan as thousands take shelter
By Sunday morning, 25,680 households in Kagoshima and neighboring Miyazaki were already without power, while regional train services, flights and ferry runs were canceled until the passage of the storm, local utilities and transport services said.

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French 'Spider-Man' scales skyscraper aged 60
Dressed in red, Alain Robert celebrated as he reached the top of the 613ft (187 metre) Tour TotalEnergies building, in the French capital's La Defense business district.

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EU calls for war crimes tribunal over Ukraine mass graves
Jan Lipvasky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Saturday that Russia’s attacks “against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent” in the 21st century.

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Lady Gaga forced to stop show amid lightning storm
In a video posted to her more than 53 million Instagram followers, an emotional Lady Gaga said: "Hi everybody, thank you so much for coming to the Chromatica Ball and we really tried to finish the show tonight in Miami but we couldn't because even when the rain sort of stopped there was lightning that was striking right down to the ground so close to us."

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Calls for calm in Haiti amid violent protests
Protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, after an end to government fuel subsidies caused petrol and diesel prices to skyrocket.

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