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President Donald Trump has stood firm against Democrats as he seeks border wall funding, risking a partial government shutdown if a compromise is not reached by December 21, 2018
World
01.08.2024
Washington careens toward government shutdown with no deal in sight
Brazilian Thamires Ferreira da Silva, 29, changes her two-year-old son Matheus, who was born with microcephaly
World
01.08.2024
'We've been forgotten': Brazil's Zika generation
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government has already moved to legalise medicinal cannabis, with legislation on the issue working its way through parliament
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01.08.2024
New Zealand to hold 'reeferendum' on legal pot
Les Moonves won't receive a severance package from CBS after sexual misconduct claims forced him out from his post as chairman and CEO
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01.08.2024
CBS ex-CEO won't get severance after sexual misconduct claims
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An aerial view of the houses in the neighborhood of Fort National in Port-au-Prince show how they are piled on top of one another -- one indication of the city's endemic poverty
World 01.08.2024
The vicious circle of poverty in Haiti
Despite opposition criticism of his attempts to circumvent the constitution, Bolivian President Evo Morales retains widespread public support
World 01.08.2024
Bolivia's Morales ignores unconstitutional accusations in reelection bid
After years of advances in education, health and political representation, women registered setbacks in all three areas this year, World Economic Forum said
World 01.08.2024
Gender equality at work more than 200 years off: WEF
Former FBI Director James Comey says Republicans need to stand up to President Donald Trump
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Former FBI chief lashes out at Trump, Republicans
The UN condemned "systematic, widespread and gross" human rights violations in North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Un is seen here
World 01.08.2024
UN condemns North Korean human rights violations
Burlington Bishop Christopher Coyne (L) and Indiana Bishop Timothy Doherty, chair of the committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which took place amid fallout from the pedophile priests scand...
World 01.08.2024
Jesuits release list of 89 US priests accused of sex abuse
Imelda Cortez (R) was acquitted and released after being first charged with murder for giving birth prematurely in a toilet
World 01.08.2024
El Salvador acquits woman charged with murder over premature birth
The automobile industry meanwhile has strongly rallied against the move to cut emissions warning that it could affect jobs
World 01.08.2024
EU agrees to cut emissions from new cars by 37 percent by 2030
The major events of 2018
World 01.08.2024
Events that marked 2018
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