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Muscovites were happy to be out again after a two-month lockdown -- but some questioned whether it was too soon to lift measures
World
17.08.2024
Traffic jams and jubilation as Moscow emerges from virus lockdown
Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, seen here in 2014, has served time for "insulting the state", spreading false news, and "publicly offending a foreign country" -- Bahrain's neighbour Saudi Arabia
World
17.08.2024
Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab freed after jail time over tweet
Nkurunziza, pictured on the election campaign trail on May 16
World
17.08.2024
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza dies: government
The explosion sent bright orange flames and huge, black plumes of smoke high into the sky
World
17.08.2024
Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout
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Russia's Siberia region, best known as an icy tundra, is being transformed by climate change
World 17.08.2024
Climate change brings fires, floods and moths to Siberia
A statue of Belgium's King Leopold II has been taken down in Antwerp as protests grow over his brutal colonial legacy
World 17.08.2024
Belgian city removes statue after anti-racist protest
London protesters defaced the statue of World War II leader Winston Churchill in Parliament Square
World 17.08.2024
UK's Johnson says will not ignore anger over racial injustice
A Palestinian man facing Israeli forces waves a national flag during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, near the town of Tulkarm on June 5
World 17.08.2024
German FM to visit Israel as West Bank annexation looms
Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe, pictured on March 14 after being released from jail over a protest against President John Magufuli
World 17.08.2024
Tanzania opposition says attack on leader 'politically motivated'
The Japanese animated news clip about the George Floyd protests drew accusations of racism
World 17.08.2024
Japan network NHK pulls US protest anime in racism row
Most of Cathay's passenger planes lie unused on Hong Kong airport's tarmac during the pandemic
World 17.08.2024
Cathay Pacific unveils US$5 billion bailout plan
Fears are mounting about the safety of self-exiled pro-democracy Thai activist Wanchalearm Satskit, who was allegedly kidnapped in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh
World 17.08.2024
Cambodia to probe Thai democracy activist's alleged disappearance
New Zealand police usually operate without firearms but trialled armed patrols after a lone gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in March 2019
World 17.08.2024
Eyeing US, New Zealand drops plans for armed police patrols
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