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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is resigning over health reasons, setting off a leadership race to replace him
World
11.08.2024
Japan's Suga cements frontrunner status in PM race
French President Emmanuel Macron began his push for reform in Lebanon not by visiting political leaders, but by spending more than an hour with singing legend Fairuz, who at 85 is a rare unifying figure
World
11.08.2024
Macron in high-stakes Lebanon reform drive
Students at the 100th anniversary of the founding of Wuhan High School on the first day of the new semester in the city in China's central Hubei province
World
11.08.2024
Wuhan, Ground Zero for coronavirus epidemic, re-opens all schools
Inner Mongolia, a vast region of desert and grassland bordering Mongolia, is home to more than four million ethnic Mongolians
World
11.08.2024
Thousands of ethnic Mongolians protest switch to Mandarin schooling
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Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil speaks to the press in Taipei whil wearing a face mask bearing the flags of the Czech Republic and Taiwan
World 11.08.2024
'I am Taiwanese': Czech speaker channels JFK in Taiwan speech
French pharma giant Sanofi is halting the trial of its Kevzara drug for serious Covid-19 cases after international Phase 3 clinical tests
World 11.08.2024
Sanofi halts trial of Covid-19 drug after tests
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One on August 28, 2020
World 11.08.2024
Psychologist-backed documentary labels Trump 'malignant narcissist'
Protesters speak with Belarusian special police officers at a rally against disputed presidential elections results in Minsk on August 30, 2020
World 11.08.2024
New UN meeting on Belarus on Friday
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to resign over health reasons, setting off a leadership race to replace him
World 11.08.2024
Japan party vote to replace PM Abe set for Sept 14: reports
Police detain a man who was with the victim of a shooting in Portland, Oregon on August 29, 2020
World 11.08.2024
US on brink as vigilantes, guns and hate stoke fears ahead of election
Despite its densely-packed population, Hong Kong has had relatively few coronavirus cases, with just over 4,800 infections
World 11.08.2024
Hong Kong rolls out mass testing as virus continues US spread
Child marriage has long been common in traditional communities from the Indonesian archipelago to India, Pakistan and Vietnam, but numbers had been decreasing as charities made inroads by encouraging access to education and women's health services
World 11.08.2024
Virus despair forces girls across Asia into child marriage
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has had a series of health issues, including four surgeries stemming from an attack in which he was stabbed in the abdomen
World 11.08.2024
Brazil's Bolsonaro to undergo surgery for kidney stone
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