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The new UN envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, arrives in Damascus on his first visit since taking up post as the fourth head of the world body's efforts to bring an end to the civil war which erupted in 2011
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05.08.2024
New UN envoy arrives in Damascus on first Syria trip: AFP
After moving to more than 10 different safe houses, Kanakadurga, who uses only one name, returned home only to be attacked by her enraged mother-in-law
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05.08.2024
Indian temple trailblazer beaten by mother-in-law
Images sent back by the Chang'e-4 probe showed that a cotton sprout had grown well, but the other plants had not taken
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05.08.2024
Cottoning on: Chinese seed sprouts on moon
The police used tear gas on Monday in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, to disperse hundreds of protesters
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05.08.2024
Zimbabwe streets empty after deadly demonstrations
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni could seek re-election for a sixth term in 2021 under the constitutional court's decision to remove an age-limit cap for presidential candidates
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Uganda presidential age limit challenged in court
Rann currently hosts some 35,000 internally displaced people and has been repeatedly hit in the conflict, exacerbating already dire humanitarian conditions on the ground
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Boko Haram attacks military base in Nigeria
Anastasia Vashukevich has been held in custody since last February, when Thai police raided the course in the sleazy seaside resort of Pattaya
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Thai trial of model claiming Trump secrets set to begin
A handout picture released by Iran's Defence Ministry on July 27, 2017 shows a Simorgh (Phoenix) satellite rocket at its launch site at an undisclosed location in Iran.
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Iran satellite in US row fails to reach orbit: state media
Choe Son Hui was among the officials who accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to Singapore for his first summit with US President Donald Trump in June
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North Korean official heads for talks in Sweden: report
Lawyer Yu Wensheng was detained last Janaury and accused of "inciting subversion of state power"
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Detained Chinese lawyer wins Franco-German human rights award
The family of British-German musician Simon Wallfisch, seen on the cello during a London performance to protest Brexit, were persecuted by the Nazis, but along with hundreds of others he is taking a German passport "to shore up some security for my fut...
World 05.08.2024
British Jews take German path to Europe after Brexit
Investigators want to probe links between Mehdi Nemmouche, depicted in a court sketch and accused of a 2014 attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and fellow jihadists behind the Paris attacks along with those in the Belgian capital
World 05.08.2024
Brussels museum gunman linked to other jihadists
Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo accused of crimes against humanity has asked the International Criminal Court for acquittal or conditional release from prison
World 05.08.2024
War crimes court to rule on release of Ivory Coast's Gbagbo
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