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Hakeem Alaraibi, a former Bahrain national team footballer with refugee status in Australia, was arrested after arriving in Bangkok for a holiday.
World
05.08.2024
Activists slam Asian Cup 'gagging' over torture-risk footballer
At 76, incumbent Muhammadu Buhari and a former military ruler, is the oldest candidate in the field -- but with a majority of Nigerians under 30 the "gerontocrats" are looking increasingly out of place, analysts say
World
05.08.2024
Endgame approaching for Nigeria's old guard?
Commemoration ceremonies to mark the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad will include 2,500 servicemen in modern and period uniforms
World
05.08.2024
Russia marks 75th anniversary of end of Leningrad siege
Karl Marx Allee, the former East German government's showpiece of Stalinist-style buildings, is a front line in a battle against Berlin's gentrification
World
05.08.2024
Berliners see red over Karl Marx Allee sale
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A draft UK-EU deal that would guarantee an open border with Northern Ireland is looking increasingly frail
World 05.08.2024
With two months to Brexit, cracks form on Irish border
Urban commuter fares in Zimbabwe have dropped from $3 to $1 to the delight of passengers
World 05.08.2024
Zimbabwe scrambles to ease passengers' woes after protests
Lebanese leader of the Hezbollah movement Hassan Nasrallah, seen here in an image grab from Al-Mayadeen TV channel, gave a rare televised interview more than three hours long
World 05.08.2024
Hezbollah chief warns Israel against continuing strikes in Syria
Libyan men walk amidst debris of a destroyed building in the town of Al-Goualiche, 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of the capital Tripoli
World 05.08.2024
Desolation, dismay await Libya displaced
US President Donald Trump, pictured with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018, has angrily denounced criticism that his first summit was mere symbolism
World 05.08.2024
Sanctions, peace deal on cards for new US-NKorea summit
This is the Brooklyn, New York courthouse where the trial on drug-related charges of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman began in November 2018, with dozens of witnesses testifying about huge drug sales, widespread corruption and frequent killings
World 05.08.2024
'El Chapo' trial: a three-month plunge into the bloody ways of the drug trade
The Israeli army has since 2013 claimed hundreds of attacks on what it says are Iranian military targets and advanced arms deliveries to Hezbollah
World 05.08.2024
Hezbollah chief warns Israel against continuing strikes in Syria
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said January 16 the UN office had been informed by "credible sources" people were killed between December 16 and 18 in four villages in Yumbi
World 05.08.2024
Fifty mass graves discovered in western DR Congo: UN rights group
Venezuela's official president remains Nicolas Maduro (r), though National Assembly chief Juan Guaido (l) has also proclaimed himself in charge
World 05.08.2024
Double trouble: Venezuelans and their two 'presidents'
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