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Striking workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, on August 20, 1980
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11.08.2024
Gdansk deal and birth of Poland's Solidarity
More than 1,000 employees had staged a demonstration at the main entrance to the mine
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11.08.2024
Huge Indonesia mine resumes operations after lockdown protest
Protests broke out over the death of disabled teenager Nathaniel Julius
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11.08.2024
S.Africa arrests two police officers for teen's murder
US actor Chadwick Boseman continued to work on major Hollywood films during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy
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11.08.2024
'Black Panther' star Boseman dies after private battle with cancer
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A vendor sells cigarettes after the government temporarily lifted the ban on tobacco sales because of coronavirus
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Bhutan lifts tobacco ban due to coronavirus
Thousands came out onto Berlin's streets on August 1 to protest against the measures in place to curb the Covid-19 virus from spreading in Germany. Over 20,000 are expected to turn out for a similar event on Saturday
World 11.08.2024
Berlin braces for 'anti-corona' demonstration
Lech Walesa was carried on fellow dockworkers' shoulders after signing a 1980 pact with Poland's Communist leadership
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Poles divided 40 years after birth of Solidarity
Stepan Svetlov is the founder of NEXTA, a Telegram channel with 2.1 million subscribers that helps mobilise protesters and shares photo and video content from the demonstrations
World 11.08.2024
Young Belarus blogger with key role in protests
Student Union of Thailand spokesperson Panusaya 'Rung' Sithijirawattanakul has become one of the faces of a burgeoning pro-democracy movement
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'I had to do it': student leader defies Thailand's royal taboo
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is Japan's longest-serving leader
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Race for new Japan PM starts after shock resignation
In Indian-administered Kashmir, More than 65 percent of the population is Muslim
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Modi's 'settler' masterplan for Indian Kashmir
Rome's last adult movie cinema, the Ambasciatori, reopened its doors after Italy began easing its lockdown restrictions
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Rome's last 'Cinema Paradiso' of porn
Kastellorizo is the Greek island furthest removed from the European mainland, a rocky, arid outcrop of around nine square kilometres
World 11.08.2024
Kastellorizo, idyllic island at heart of Greece-Turkey row
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