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State media footage showed murky floodwaters lapping at the feet of the 71m metre-tall Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan - for the first time since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949
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17.08.2024
China floods force hundreds of thousands from homes
People with ties to Islamic extremism have committed several violent attacks in Germany in recent years
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17.08.2024
Man causes motorway accidents in Berlin in 'Islamist' act: prosecutors
France issued a new mask warning off the back of a recent rise in cases believed driven by young people
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17.08.2024
Vaccine should be mandatory says Australia PM as race heats up
Anti-government protesters have been gathering almost daily in Thailand
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17.08.2024
Thai court issues warrants after protesters tackle royal taboos
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The threat to its business model puts pressure on Uber to move faster toward its vision of dispatching self-driving cars to provide rides on demand
World 17.08.2024
Uber-Lyft to stop California services absent reprieve
Faces covered in white dust and chisels in hand, marble sculptors in Myanmar say the hills that have given them a livelihood for generations are disappearing, as large companies reap the rewards of the prized white rock. The deafening sound of cutting...
World 17.08.2024
'We want our mountains back': the fight over Myanmar's marble hills
Israel carries out air strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza, hours after warning the Palestinian Islamist group that it risks war if it fails to end repeated launches of arson balloons across the border
World 17.08.2024
Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas it risks war
Earth's oceans contain an estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic, often in the form of microplastic particles
World 17.08.2024
Atlantic plastic levels far higher than thought: study
Hristo Ivanov was a minister in a previous Borisov government before starting his own anti-corruption party
World 17.08.2024
Varied faces of Bulgaria's anti-corruption protests
Six members of the specialist clean-up team are travelling to Mauritius from Japan
World 17.08.2024
Japan experts head to Mauritius for oil spill clean-up
Teenager Bella Achieng works alongside her mother in Nairobi after the school year was cancelled in Kenya due to the coronavirus
World 17.08.2024
Kenyan students mourn lost year as school scrapped over virus
The suspect is accused of pushing the eight-year-old boy and his mother onto the tracks in an apparently random attack at Frankfurt's main station last year
World 17.08.2024
Eritrean on trial for pushing boy under German train
A man walks past a sign urging people to wear face masks in Melbourne as the city battles an outbreak of COVID-19
World 17.08.2024
Coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory in Australia: PM
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