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Kurdish-led forces control a large swathe of the country's north and northeast, some of seized from the Islamic State group at the cost of heavy losses with backing from the US-led coalition
World
03.08.2024
What next for Syria's Kurds?
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 and is serving a five-year jail sentence in Tehran for alleged sedition
World
03.08.2024
Rights activist, UK detainee plan Tehran jail hunger strike
The US president on Wednesday mocked what he said were his Indian counterpart's frequent comments on building a library in Afghanistan
World
03.08.2024
India rebuffs Trump 'Afghan library' swipe
In his final column for The Washington Post, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi perhaps presciently pleaded for greater freedom of expression in the Middle East
World
03.08.2024
Saudi prosecutor seeks death sentences as Khashoggi murder trial opens
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Counting votes in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been a marathon task
World 03.08.2024
DR Congo election panel may delay provisional results
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made removing Franco's remains from a grandiose mausoleum near Madrid one of his priorities
World 03.08.2024
Spain says Franco mausoleum's prior vetoes exhumation
The European Union has been working with north African countries, particularly conflict-wracked Libya, by offering aid money and help with border patrols in a bid to stem the flow of people
World 03.08.2024
Annual migrant deaths in Mediterranean fall by over a quarter: UNHCR
Ko Phangan and nearby Koh Tao are hugely popular with tourists over the Christmas and New Year season
World 03.08.2024
Tourists flee Thai islands as Tropical Storm Pabuk closes in
In his final column for The Washington Post, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi perhaps presciently pleaded for greater freedom of expression in the Middle East
World 03.08.2024
Saudi prosecutor seeks death sentences as Khashoggi murder trial opens
China introduced its one-child policy in 1979 and last changed it in early 2016, raising the limit to two children
World 03.08.2024
China's population shrinks despite two-child policy: experts
Britain's Home Secretary Sajid Javid said almost all those who have made it across the Channel have requested asylum, but he questioned whether someone who had left the safety of France could be a "genuine asylum seeker"
World 03.08.2024
British navy called out to tackle migrant dinghies
Opposition activists and MPs have criticsed the election and called for the poll to be re-run
World 03.08.2024
Opposition boycotts swearing-in of new Bangladesh MPs
The Myanmar army led a crackdown against the Rohingya in Rakhine in 2017, saying they needed to flush out militants from the stateless minority
World 03.08.2024
Thousands displaced as Myanmar army and Rakhine rebels clash
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