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QUITO -- At least 21 prisoners were killed and several more injured in riots on Wednesday night in two prisons in Ecuador, the Attorney General's Office said on Thursday.

The incidents took place in the prisons in the provinces of Guayas and Cotopaxi, where hours later security agents and prison guards, together with elite groups of the National Police, regained control of the prisons. (Ecuador-Prison riot)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least one person was killed and 85 others were injured on Thursday morning when a lorry hit a moving train in Tanzania's eastern region of Morogoro.

Fortunatus Muslim, the Morogoro regional police commander, said the accident occurred at around 9 a.m. when the lorry collided with the train heading to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam from the Kigoma region. (Tanzania-Train crash)

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BRUSSELS -- More than half of the adult population in the European Union (EU), equivalent to over 200 million people, are fully vaccinated, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Dana Spinant, deputy chief spokesperson of the European Commission, told journalists during the daily briefing that according to the latest data of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, 54.7 percent of the adult population was fully vaccinated with either two vaccine doses or one dose in the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (EU-Vaccination)

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ABUJA -- At least 60 people have been killed by a cholera outbreak since May in Nigeria's capital, a government official said in Abuja on Thursday.

A total of 698 cases of the disease have been recorded since May, said Ramatu Aliyu, the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) while visiting some of the affected communities in Abuja. (Nigeria-Cholera) Enditem

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