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Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa controlled by Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal, plans a $9bn IPO on the London Stock Exchange, one of the biggest UK listings in years. The business operates across Africa and the listing is seen as a boost for the struggling London market.
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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with two further offences: indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on a date to be fixed.
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Veteran BBC Africa correspondent Mark Doyle has died. He was best known for reporting on African conflicts in the 1990s and 2000s, notably in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
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Dr Vincent Brown has appeared in court charged over the 1994 Rwandan genocide, following a seven-year British investigation, in a UK first.
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The remains of slave trader Edward Colston are likely to stay interred at All Saints church in Bristol, which may be repurposed as a community space. The dean of Bristol, the Very Rev Mandy Ford, said the remains would probably stay where they are.
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Josh Babarinde, the 33-year-old president of the Liberal Democrats, sets out a combative agenda targeting big tech and crypto billionaires and returning power and money to the public as the party gathers in Brighton.
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Andy Burnham of "fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning", repeating her call for the prime minister to cut the welfare budget to fund increased defence spending.
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Reform UK MP Danny Kruger said asylum seekers arriving on small boats are 'wealthy men' who do not deserve help from the British state, arguing that paying people smugglers thousands of pounds shows they are well off. Refugee charities immediately dismissed the claim.
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Nusrat Osman, a British woman kidnapped outside her home in Blantyre, Malawi on 11 September, was rescued by police in a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed. Police had offered a 30m kwacha (£12,950) reward for information.
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British rapper Sway, known for hits including Still Speedin' and Level Up, has died aged 44. He was living in Ghana at the time of his death.
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More than 180 writers, including Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee, have signed a PEN International letter to Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki demanding proof of life for 12 writers detained incommunicado since a 2001 crackdown on the independent press. Signatories include Ben Okri, Elif Shafak, Colm Toibin and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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Home secretary Shabana Mahmood described anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as "a far-right and outright racist" who would face "the full force of the law" if his organisation commits crimes near contested asylum sites such as Piddington. She also sought to reassure villagers that asylum seekers moving into a former defence site would have self-contained facilities.
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A British woman, a mother of two, who was kidnapped in daylight in Blantyre, Malawi, was rescued in a shootout in which four suspected kidnappers were killed.
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British rapper Sway, who won the Mobo award for best hip-hop act in 2005 as the first unsigned artist to do so, has died aged 44. The Mobo awards announced the news, paying tribute to his legacy and influence on Black British music.
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Ivan Jennings, 46, has been jailed for five years after pleading guilty to encouraging terrorism on social media, having called for the killing of migrants and minority communities and discussed poisoning Jews and Muslims in far-right groups in 2024.
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At least five Reform UK councillors, from Solihull, Gateshead and Kent, were members of a Facebook group linked to the far-right Patriot Platform, according to anti-fascist campaigners. The group has been involved in blockades at Dover and Portsmouth by masked men, activities condemned by Nigel Farage and across the political spectrum.
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Olu Jacobs, one of Nigeria's most recognised actors with a career spanning several decades, has died aged 84.
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British-American novelist, playwright and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died aged 77 after a brief illness, her husband David Hutchins said. She was a regular on UK current affairs programmes.
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