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Persistent heat records have rattled the fragile Arctic for each of the past five years, a record-long warming streak, said the 2018 Arctic Report Card, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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01.08.2024
Arctic's record warming driving 'broad change' in environment: study
A series of measures announced by French President Emmanuel Macron to ease "yellow vest" protests could blow a hole in the budget and his reputation, analysts say
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01.08.2024
Macron blows hole in budget with 'yellow vest' measures
India's President Shri Ram Nath Kovind was greeted with the full pomp and circumstance of a guard of honour before meeting Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi
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01.08.2024
Myanmar and India strengthen ties in key state visit
Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees live in the Middle East and North Africa, including one million born into displacement, the UN refugee agency says
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01.08.2024
250,000 refugees could return to Syria next year: UN
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French actress Juliette Binoche, prolific in both European and US productions, took home an Oscar for her role in "The English Patient" in 1996
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Juliette Binoche to head Berlin film festival jury
The Arc de Triomphe was has been at the epicentre of the "yellow vest" protests in Paris since November
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Arc de Triomphe to reopen after Paris protest damage
Ansarullah Bangla Team have been blamed for a series of murders of secular activists, writers and homosexuals since 2013
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Bangladesh arrests extremists over plot to kill filmmaker
The CAR army controls just a fraction of the country's territory -- poor training and equipment are major problems
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France ships 1,400 assault rifles to C.Africa army
Police told the BBC the incident was not terror-related
World 01.08.2024
Armed police detain man outside British parliament
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire missiles at at jihadist target in in eastern Syria on October 1, in retaliation for a September attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz
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Iran confirms recent missile test amid Western criticism
Supporters of the ruling Awami League, the party chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is running for a record fourth term in office
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Nearly 100 injured in Bangladesh poll campaign violence
Dozens in the crowd in Indonesia's conservative Muslim province of Aceh jeered and called for the men to be whipped harder
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Indonesia's Aceh whips men for sharia-banned gambling
Alexeyeva was the leader of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of Russia's oldest rights organisations
World 01.08.2024
Russians mourn human rights giant Lyudmila Alexeyeva
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