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Belarus has been gripped by protests since the disputed August 9 election
World
11.08.2024
EU's Borrell urges Russia not to intervene in Belarus
An asylum seeker takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Berlin on September 10, 2015 at the beginning of Europe's migrant crisis
World
11.08.2024
Five years after refugee influx, Merkel 'would do the same'
Contender: Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in an attack in 2017
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11.08.2024
Tanzania kicks off campaign as Magufuli vies for new term
Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel is alleged to have taken $50 million in kickbacks related to funds to fight the coronavirus pandemic
World
11.08.2024
Brazil court removes Rio governor over corruption
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Water submerged streets and washed into houses in Rawalpindi city, next to the capital, after heavy rain caused rivers to overflow. Large swathes of Pakistan have been hit by flooding in recent weeks
World 11.08.2024
Dozens dead as record rains lash Pakistan
Bozize has cast a shadow over Touadera's government since returning from abroad last December
World 11.08.2024
In the Central Africa Republic, Mali's coup stirs bad memories
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remains in an induced coma
World 11.08.2024
'Some improvement' in Navalny's condition: Berlin hospital
Ebru Timtik had been held in the Silivri Prison and Courthouse complex in Silivri, near Istanbul
World 11.08.2024
Turkish lawyer dies after 238-day hunger strike
Young men haul a burning tyre during protests at Tygerberg Raceway near Cape Town. The motor-racing venue was invaded on August 6 by people demanding land
World 11.08.2024
Pandemic amplifies S.Africa's urban housing woes
Women from the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation stitch Personal Protective Equipment for frontline coronavirus workers in Hyderabad
World 11.08.2024
Paris masks up as European leaders warn virus fight getting tougher
Hong Kong's administration insists the security law has not impinged on the rights to freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed to the territory when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997 but a number of pro-democracy figures have left the city
World 11.08.2024
China arrests 12 fleeing Hong Kong by speedboat: city police
Vaccination programmes like this one in Nigeria in 2017 eradicated wild poliovirus in Africa but vaccine-derived polio still poses a threat in many countries
World 11.08.2024
Sudan to launch mass polio vaccination after outbreak
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper (pictured in Washington on March 4, 2020) accused China of 'destabilising' the Pacific region
World 11.08.2024
US defence chief says China 'destabilising' Pacific
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