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The 38 new deaths marked the biggest single-day jump yet and come as a massive containment effort is under way that has effectively locked down tens of millions of people in Hubei
World
09.08.2024
China virus death toll rises to 170, more than 1,700 new cases
Brazilian actress Regina Duarte gestures as she leaves the Planalto Palace in Brasilia after a meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro January 29, 2020
World
09.08.2024
Actress says she will be Brazil's culture chief
View of a car on January 29, 2020 that was dragged by heavy rains in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
World
09.08.2024
More torrential rain in Brazil raises death toll to 54
Libyans take part in a demonstration against eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar -- who is backed by France, Russia and others -- and in support of the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), at Martyrs' Square in the GNA-held capital Tripoli
World
09.08.2024
Turkey says France to blame for Libya instability
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Former national security advisor John Bolton (L) reportedly says President Donald Trump wanted to freeze military aid to Ukrain until Kiev opened an investigation into Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination
World 09.08.2024
Trump attacks Bolton as Senate impeachment trial enters new phase
Jerusalem's iconic Dome of the Rock can be seen from Abu Dis -- but Israel's controversial barrier is in the way
World 09.08.2024
Abu Dis, the 'Palestinian capital' that doesn't want the job
Naama Issachar, 26, was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in April 2019
World 09.08.2024
Putin pardons US-Israeli woman jailed in Russia for drug trafficking
Greta Thunberg complains that people are using her name for fraudulent purposes
World 09.08.2024
Greta Thunberg patents own name and 'Fridays for Future'
Bibi was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges by a Pakistani court in 2010 but then dramatically acquitted in 2018 
World 09.08.2024
'Finally free!': Asia Bibi on Pakistan prison, life in exile
Democratic Republic of Congo
World 09.08.2024
36 killed in suspected militia massacre in east DR Congo
The Infrared Astronomical Satellites (IRAS) space telescope was launched in 1983 as a joint project of NASA, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, and its mission lasted only 10 months
World 09.08.2024
Two defunct satellites speed toward possible collision
The sun sets over St Peter's Basilica (Rear R) at the Vatican, which abruptly shuttered a religious order whose members are under investigation for sexual assault
World 09.08.2024
Priests accused of sex abuse in religious order shut by Vatican
No verified infection has been reported to date in Africa, but elsewhere other countries have stopped flights to China
World 09.08.2024
First African measures to stop spread of Chinese virus
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