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Investigators have charged four people -- three Russians, including former intelligence agent Igor Girkin, and one Ukrainian -- over the shooting down of flight MH17
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07.08.2024
Who are the four men charged with downing of MH17?
Fatal weapon: The revolver Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself with was found in a field by a farmer in 1965, 75 years after the painter's death
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07.08.2024
Gun 'that ended Van Gogh's life' sells for nearly triple estimate
Changi Airport closed one of its two runways after drones were spotted nearby
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07.08.2024
Drones close runway at Singapore airport
Xi Jinping's op-ed was front page news in North Korea, the day before his visit to the isolated country
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07.08.2024
Xi pens friendship letter to North Korea before rare visit
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Doctors are not sure what the cause is, but one theory is that the culprit is a toxin found in lychees eaten by children of poor families who go to bed with empty stomachs
World 07.08.2024
Chaos and tragedy in Indian 'brain fever' outbreak
Irfan Siddiq, Britian's ambassador to Khartoum, has warned that Sudan could face major problems if its ruling military council fails to hand power to civilians
World 07.08.2024
Sudan generals must transfer power to regain trust: UK envoy
Sarkozy has faced several legal investigations since failing in his 2012 re-election bid
World 07.08.2024
Ex-French president Sarkozy loses bid to halt corruption trial
Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2
World 07.08.2024
'Credible evidence' linking Saudi crown prince to Khashoggi murder: UN expert
The US Department of Defense released this picture among others which it says incriminate Iran in the June 13, 2019 tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman
World 07.08.2024
Japan tanker hit by mine resembling Iran's: US army
Officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant sparked a scare by ticking the wrong box on a fax form
World 07.08.2024
Get your fax right: Bungling officials spark Japan nuclear scare
A poster calling for the release of Josu Ternera, one of the most influential leaders of former Basque separatist group ETA, in the Spanish village of Miraballes on May 16, 2019, after he was arrested in France.
World 07.08.2024
Court releases ex-ETA boss after France arrest
Brexit figurehead Boris Johnson has carefully stage-managed his media engagements in a leadership contest that remains his to lose
World 07.08.2024
Boris Johnson wins key Brexit backing in Tory leadership race
Syrian farmer Radwan Hazaa is counting on ths year's record winter rainfall to provide the irrigation water he needs to bring life back to his farm after long years of war
World 07.08.2024
A slow road to recovery for Eastern Ghouta farms
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