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Former prime minister Najib Razak is expected to face several trials on allegations he was involved in the looting of Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB
World
06.08.2024
Malaysia's Najib in last-ditch bid to delay trial
Rushdie is seen by many in the West as a free speech hero
World
06.08.2024
Rushdie: from fatwa fugitive to free speech hero
Trump has been pushing to end US involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 American troops are still deployed
World
06.08.2024
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrives in Afghanistan
Iran's spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's murder in 1989
World
06.08.2024
Thirty years after Rushdie fatwa, blasphemy still a potent weapon
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More than 3,000 people died on both sides of the Ivory Coast conflict after Gbagbo refused to concede defeat to Ouattara, his internationally backed rival
World 06.08.2024
I. Coast's Ouattara says 'someone must be responsible' for poll deaths
British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie insists that he now lives a normal life, though his best-known work "The Satanic Verses" triggered death threats
World 06.08.2024
'I don't want to hide' says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa
Mohammad Ali, a 28-year-old Canadian jihadist captured by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks to AFP at a detention centre in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on February 10, 2019
World 06.08.2024
Canadian jihadist says IS foreign fighters 'hung out to dry'
Oriol Junqueras, a lifelong supporter of Catalan independence
World 06.08.2024
Junqueras: Affable, inscrutable leader of Catalan separatism
The Trump administration is demanding far-reaching changes from China to address commercial practices that it says are deeply unfair
World 06.08.2024
US team in Beijing for trade talks
Egyptian classical Arabic music singer Ahmad Adel performs a song by celebrated 20th century Egyptian composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab, at the Arab Music Institute Theatre
World 06.08.2024
Egypt tunes into nostalgia for golden age of Arab song
Far-right party Vox burst on to the political scene by winning 12 seats in southern Andalusia's regional parliament in December
World 06.08.2024
Catalan separatist trial gives Spanish far right global platform
A German court last year refused to send former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont back to Spain on rebellion charges
World 06.08.2024
Catalan separatists' trial puts Spanish state on defensive
Goalkeeper Mohamed el Shenawy is set to start for Al Ahly this Tuesday away to Simba SC in a CAF Champions League group match
World 06.08.2024
Ahly close to CAF Champions League last-eight place
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