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Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (right) are looking to strengthen their grip on Sri Lankan politics
World
17.08.2024
Rajapaksa brothers look to tighten grip in Sri Lanka polls
Nihad and his wife Zeinab generate a modest income by selling the dolls and by sending costumed performers to nurseries and schools
World
17.08.2024
Disabled Gaza couple make dolls to give their children 'decent life'
For European policymakers the 'cloud' may become ominous as it could allow the US access to European data and dependence on how to exploit it
World
17.08.2024
US 'cloud' supremacy has Europe worried about data
An April 1945 file photo from The National Archives shows US Marines passing through a small village in Okinawa, Japan, where Japanese soldiers lie dead
World
17.08.2024
From Manhattan to Hiroshima: the race for the atom bomb
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Japan this week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
World 17.08.2024
'Unspeakable horror': the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jiro Hamasumi, 74, was still being carried by his pregnant mother when the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, killing his father and several family members
World 17.08.2024
75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition
Thousands of supporters attended Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's rally in Maladzechna ahead of the Belarus presidential election
World 17.08.2024
Belarus opposition rallies voters with promise of change
Yemen, mired in civil war since 205, is ill-equipped to deal with the coronavirus pandemic
World 17.08.2024
Pandemic's economic fallout will worsen conflicts: UN diplomats
HFPA President Lorenzo Soria is named as a defendant in an antitrust lawsuit against the group which awards the Golden Globes each year
World 17.08.2024
Golden Globes voters hit with antitrust lawsuit
The discovery of water on Mars sparked a resurgence of interest in the Red Planet and space missions, like NASA's Curiosity rover, pictured
World 17.08.2024
Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study
Journalist Khaled Drareni is seen at a demonstration in Algiers the day before his arrest in March
World 17.08.2024
Algeria journalist 'press freedom' trial opens
43 people were killed when the old viaduct collapsed, hurling dozens of cars and several trucks onto railway tracks below
World 17.08.2024
Victims 'shining like stars' as Italy inaugurates new Genoa bridge
Spain's former king Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014
World 17.08.2024
Spain's ex-king Juan Carlos heads for exile under corruption cloud
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