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The Russian President Vladimir Putin is to make a televised statement on controversial pension reforms later. Plans to raise the state pension age have prompted anti-government demonstrations and caused Mr. Putin’s personal approval rating to plummet.

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Germany is due to hand over to Namibia the remains of people killed in a genocidal campaign during colonial rule more than a century ago. A ceremony to return 19 skulls as well as bones will take place shortly at a church in Berlin. They were sent to Germany for use in the now-discredited experiments designed to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May is heading to Nigeria on the second day of her visit to Africa. She will meet President Muhammadu Buhari in the Capital Abuja. The two leaders are expected to discuss trade, security and people trafficking. Mrs. May will then travel to Lagos where she will meet victims of modern slavery.

French and British fishermen have clashed in a fight over scallops. The crew of a number of French boats have been accused of throwing stones and smoke bombs in a dispute about the shellfish of the French coast. Liber De Seco has more. This is what’s been called the scallop wars. French fishermen clash with their British counterparts in the sea of the Normandy coast. Rocks and smoking bombs were just some of these things reported to have been thrown at the English and Scottish vessels in the earlier hours of Tuesday morning. It is a latest tormenting ongoing tension over fishing in these waters. French law says its fishermen can only harvest scallops here between October and May. The Brits face no such restrictions and French fishermen think that’s not fair.

Scientists in Britain have found that given a choice, bumble bees prefer food containing a pesticide which is harmful to them. Overtime, they choose it instead of unadulterated food. The research provides further evidence that bees develop addictive behavior when exposed to a neo-nicotinoid, similar to humans who smoke.

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