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ABUJA -- Nigerian police confirmed Sunday that they had rescued six people out of 19 who were kidnapped from a mosque in the country's northern state of Katsina late Saturday.
Gambo Isah, a spokesman for the state police, told reporters in Katsina city that the gunmen stormed a local mosque in the Maigamji community of Katsina, shooting and injuring two people during the attack. (Nigeria-Kidnapping-Rescue)
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NEW DELHI -- The quality of air in India's Delhi deteriorated to the "Severe" category on Sunday, and as a result restrictions on construction and demolition were re-imposed to bring down air pollution levels.
Taking a note of the rise in air pollution levels, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) said in an order that as the air quality index (AQI) had slipped into the "Severe" category owing to calm wind and stable atmospheric conditions, all actions would be implemented with immediate effect to bring down air pollution levels. (India-Air pollution)
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ABUJA -- The China-aided construction of the permanent headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) began on Sunday in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to consolidate the regional bloc's operations in one complex -- a departure from operating at three different locations in Abuja.
At least three West African leaders including Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his counterparts from Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone, as well as President of the ECOWAS Commission Omar Alieu Touray and Chinese ambassador to Nigeria Cui Jianchun, performed the groundbreaking ceremony to formally commence the construction of the new headquarters. (Nigeria-China-ECOWAS headquarters)
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VIENNA -- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies, a group known as OPEC+, on Sunday agreed to stick to its oil output target against the backdrop of sliding crude prices and an imminent Western countries' price cap on Russian oil.
According to a statement released after the 34th OPEC+ ministerial meeting, the oil-producer alliance decided to reaffirm the decision of its previous ministerial meeting in early October, where it agreed to cut production by 2 million barrels per day from November until the end of 2023. (OPEC-Output target) Enditem
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