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A school for training komians, or traditional priestesses, opened in 1992 in eastern Ivory Coast but most of its buildings are in disrepair and the school is looking for a benefactor
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05.08.2024
Endangered in Ivory Coast: traditional priestesses
One of the two limestone Visigoth reliefs recovered by a Dutch art detective
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05.08.2024
'Indiana Jones of art' finds stolen Spanish carvings in English garden
Soldiers stand guard near the presidential palace in Caracas on August 4, 2018, after the government said drones loaded with explosives detonated near President Nicolas Maduro during a military ceremony
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05.08.2024
A history of armed attempts to dislodge Venezuela's Maduro
Anand Giridharadas speaks at the WIRED25 Festival in California in October 2018
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05.08.2024
'Cancel Davos', blasts anti-elite author
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France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) talks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel want to strengthen ties betweeen their two countries
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France, Germany seek closer bond with treaty ahead of Brexit
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both seemed determined to try to settle the Kuril Islands dispute personally
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Putin, Abe hold summit to break island impasse
Pablo Beltran, ELN commander and the head of its delegation to the peace talks in Havana, said the rebels want government guarantees the group can return to Colombia
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Colombia's ELN rebels want government return 'guarantees'
Social messaging app WhatsApp has more than 1.5 billion users who exchange some 65 billion messages per day
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WhatsApp limits message forwarding to fight 'fake news'
Scientific consensus is hardening that in order for Earth to avoid the worst scourges of climate change, emissions must peak by 2020 and drastically reduce thereafter
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World to miss 2020 climate 'turning point': analysis
Relatives of three of the people killed in a massive blaze triggered by a leaky pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico attend their funeral on January 20, 2019
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Mexico probes negligence in pipeline blast that killed 91
A protest in the Sudanese city of Omdurman on Sunday
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Hundreds demonstrate after Sudan protester's death: witnesses
Under Rio de Janeiro's Governor-elect and President Jair Bolsonaro ally Wilson Witzel, pictured November 2018, local authorities are poised to take a hard line on crime, including using facial-recognition technology at Rio's famed Carnival
World 05.08.2024
Rio to test facial-recognition cameras during Carnival
Soldiers from Venezuela's National Guard fired tear gas at protesters near the Cotiza command post taken over by rebel troops aiming to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro on January 21, 2019
World 05.08.2024
Venezuelan military group arrested after call to disavow Maduro 
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