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Protestors hold a banner reading "The people speak out" during a protest of 'yellow vests' against rising fuel prices and living costs, in the southern French city of Nice on December 8, 2018
World
25.06.2024
France 'yellow vest' protests: Timeline of unrest
Soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Democratic republic of the Congo (FARDC) are seen gearing up as gunfire erupts close by on October 7, 2018 outside Oicha Attacks on FARDC bases by the ADF has become more common. The ADF usually attack at night ove...
World
25.06.2024
Nine slain in new massacre in eastern DR Congo
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey sparked online outrage with a series of tweets praising Myanmar, without making any reference to the persecution of Rohingya that has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border
World
25.06.2024
Myanmar defends Twitter CEO blasted for 'tone deaf' tweets
The findings released last week were a stunning rebuke of Sidibe's nine-year tenure
World
25.06.2024
Calls mount to sack UNAIDS chief
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A statue of Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn during its unveiling ceremony in Moscow on the 100th anniversary of his birth
World 25.06.2024
Putin praises dissident writer Solzehnitsyn on centenary
Indonesian villagers initially thought the giant snake was just an old log before one of them touched the serpent, triggering it into action
World 25.06.2024
Great snakes! Indonesians wrestle with giant python
A coalition of 60 human rights groups wrote to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to scrap the "Dragonfly" project
World 25.06.2024
Google 'must scrap censored Chinese search plans': NGOs
Huthi representative Salim al-Moughaless (R) and Yemeni economist and government representative Ahmed Ghaleb at talks in Sweden where the two sides have exchanged some 15,000 names for a prisoner swap
World 25.06.2024
Yemen govt, rebels swap names of 15,000 prisoners at UN talks
Alexeyeva was the leader of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of Russia's oldest rights organisations
World 25.06.2024
Russians mourn human rights giant Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Dozens in the crowd in Indonesia's conservative Muslim province of Aceh jeered and called for the men to be whipped harder
World 25.06.2024
Indonesia's Aceh whips men for sharia-banned gambling
Supporters of the ruling Awami League, the party chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is running for a record fourth term in office
World 25.06.2024
Nearly 100 injured in Bangladesh poll campaign violence
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire missiles at at jihadist target in in eastern Syria on October 1, in retaliation for a September attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz
World 25.06.2024
Iran confirms recent missile test amid Western criticism
Police told the BBC the incident was not terror-related
World 25.06.2024
Armed police detain man outside British parliament
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