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A campaign billboard bearing images of Peoples Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar and his running mate Peter Obi stands on a road in Abuja on February 19, 2019, ahead of the rescheduled elections whose result Abubakar disputes
World
06.08.2024
Court clears Nigeria's opposition chief to inspect vote material
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the social network moving toward private messaging and away from being a "digital town square"
World
06.08.2024
Zuckerberg: private, small-scale messaging is Facebook's future
Oyub Titiyev, pictured leaving a Grozny court building in July 2018, was arrested early that year on what campaigners believe are trumped up drug charges against the man who headed the Chechnya branch of Russia's top rights group
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06.08.2024
Russian rights group awaits verdict of its Chechnya chief
Women and children queue at a screening point after fleeing the Islamic State group's last redoubt in Syria
World
06.08.2024
Hundreds limp out of besieged Syria jihadist enclave
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US President Donald Trump has prolonged sanctions on more than 100 individuals and entities from Zimbabwe including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, over rights abuses
World 06.08.2024
Zimbabwe says US renewal of sanctions 'regrettable'
Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, has experienced a spike in violent attacks on people with albinism. In many cases those with albinism are targeted for their body parts to be used in witchcraft
World 06.08.2024
Malawi police block protest march by hundreds of albinos
Vatican ambassador Waldemar Sommertag (L) and Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada announce a breakthrough in peace talks between the government and opposition
World 06.08.2024
Nicaragua government, opposition agree on 'roadmap' for talks
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has opened the country's intelligence files to the public
World 06.08.2024
Mexican president denies communist past
"I urge you to troop out massively on Saturday," said Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
World 06.08.2024
Nigeria's leader urges peaceful state polls
Zelensky's only previous political experience has been playing the country's president in a television show but says he wants to help people. 
World 06.08.2024
Ukraine actor turned presidential frontrunner says politics 'not the movies'
The UN has called for a "full investigation" in police conduct during often violent anti-government "Yellow Vests" protests in France
World 06.08.2024
UN rights head urges probe of force used in 'Yellow Vest' protests
"What is a golden shower?" tweeted Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro after being slammed for posting obscene footage of a carinval-goer urinating on another man's head
World 06.08.2024
Brazil's Bolsonaro slammed for tweeting obscene carnival video
Haiti has been rocked by weeks of anti-government protests that have left at least seven dead
World 06.08.2024
UN chief says Haiti police mission should close as planned
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