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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa holds the Rugby World Cup trophy with Springboks captain Siya Kolisi
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08.08.2024
'Warrior' Springboks parade World Cup through streets of Soweto
Bolivia's President Evo Morales is accused of rigging his 2019 re-election
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08.08.2024
Morales leads outrage over humiliating attack on Bolivian mayor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) held talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
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08.08.2024
Erdogan threatens to open Europe gates for refugees
Critics fear Guinea's President Alpha Conde plans to seek to extend his rule, a charge he has neither confirmed or denied
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08.08.2024
Protesters take to streets in tense Guinea capital
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The conflict in Syria has been fueled by arms supplied to both sides by foreign powers in violation of a UN arms embargo, a US study concludes
World 08.08.2024
Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have "routinely" violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, according to a confidential report by UN experts seen Thursday by AFP.
A "yellow vest" protest in Paris on September 21, 2019. Critics have accused the police of using heavy-handed tactics that have left dozens of protesters injured.
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Two French police members will stand trial for alleged violence against so-called "yellow vest" protesters taking part in nationwide anti-government rallies now in their 12th month, a senior prosecutor said Wednesday.
The new strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people, the clinical threshold for classifying subtypes
World 08.08.2024
A US pharmaceutical firm has said it has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutating viruses.
The al-Hol camp in northeast Syria is the main site holding families of IS foreign fighters
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EU countries have a "short window" to decide whether to repatriate nationals -- particularly hundreds of very young children -- who were part of the defeated Islamic State group and who are now being held in camps in Syria, MEPs heard Thursday.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visits an exposition at the Latvian Museum of Occupation in Riga, Latvia in October 2019
World 08.08.2024
Talks with Ukraine on a new loan package are continuing but Kiev will need to address corruption and reduce the power of oligarchs to attract much needed investment, an IMF spokesman said Thursday.
All 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck outside London last month have now been identified as Vietnamese citizens
World 08.08.2024
All 39 bodies found inside a refrigerated truck outside London last month have now been identified as citizens of Vietnam, British police and Vietnamese officials said on Thursday.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warns that growing global debt leaves governments and households vulnerable to a rise in interest rates
World 08.08.2024
The global debt load has surged to a new all-time record equivalent to more than double the world's economic output, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned Thursday.
"What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO," Macron told the Economist magazine in an interview.
World 08.08.2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says he believes NATO is undergoing "brain death," lamenting a lack of coordination between Europe and the United States and unilateral actions in Syria by key member Turkey, in an interview published Thursday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Malaysia's foreign minister that the US was prepared to host the APEC summit next year
World 08.08.2024
An offer by the United states to host a Pacific rim summit in America next year after Chile abruptly cancelled this year's event was "not a good idea", Malaysia's foreign minister said Thursday.
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