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A police helicopter overflies the Favela da Mare shantytown complex in Rio de Janeiro in March 2014 -- the use of helicopters in police raids has increased in recent months
World
09.08.2024
Police choppers a terrifying sight in Rio slums
Children play near their families' tents set up on a street outside Eleonas refugee camp in Athens
World
09.08.2024
Greece: Turkey needs to end 'blackmail' for migrant aid
The US Congress has antagonized Beijing by passing legislation that supports human rights and democracy in Hong Kong, where months of protests and unrest have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Protesters react as police fire tear gas while t...
World
09.08.2024
Hong Kong rights bill clears US Congress, heads to Trump
The Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge are seen through a smokey haze blanketing the city
World
09.08.2024
Bushfire threat spreads in Australia as smoke chokes Sydney
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AFP and a range of other media outlets were forced to retract their stories after it became clear that a UN expert had mistakenly presented four-year-old cumulative figures as if they were the current total number of migrant children in US detention
World 09.08.2024
UN expert apologises for faulty figure on children in US migration detention
Benin's former leader Thomas Boni Yayi (in white) 2nd L, white)after arriving in in Cotonou on Wednesday
World 09.08.2024
Former Benin leader returns from exile amid crisis
A child holds a Mapuche indigenous flag during a march in Santiago on November 01
World 09.08.2024
Police facing charges of violating childrens' rights during Chile protests
Lebedev, who bought Britain's The Independent and the Evening Standard newspapers before passing ownership to his son Evgeny, told AFP he wants to see the report released
World 09.08.2024
Oligarch Lebedev backs UK release of Russia meddling probe
Artist's impresison shows Clain (right) and her husband (second right) during the trial in Paris
World 09.08.2024
Sister of French IS brothers jailed for terrorist association
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg refused to comment on the French proposal
World 09.08.2024
France, Germany offer NATO plans after 'brain death' row
A third of tropical flora in Africa is threatened, including in southern Democratic Republic of Congo
World 09.08.2024
A third of Africa's tropical flora threatened with extinction: study
Stephen Biegun, the US envoy on North Korea and nominee to be deputy secretary of state, seen here in June 2019, has called on North Korea to step up its representation in talks
World 09.08.2024
US asks N.Korea to 'seize the moment' on talks
A picture taken on November 19, 2019 from the Israeli settlement of Psagot shows a partial view of the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah
World 09.08.2024
EU countries at UN criticise America's shift on settlements
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