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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said a crucial prisoner swap with the Taliban is almost complete
World
17.08.2024
Taliban declare three-day ceasefire during Eid
The return to normal will be longer than previously forecast
World
17.08.2024
Global air traffic won't return to pre-crisis level before 2024: IATA
Ethiopia said on July 21 it had hit its first-year target for filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a concrete colossus 145 metres (475 feet) high that has stoked tensions with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan
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17.08.2024
Egypt's Sisi says Nile dam saga to 'drag on'
Law professor Benny Tai (C) has decried his sacking by the University of Hong Kong
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17.08.2024
University sacks Hong Kong protest leader loathed by China
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Museveni was last elected in February 2016, defeating Kizza Besigye in a vote marred by accusations of rigging and violence
World 17.08.2024
Uganda's Museveni nominated for sixth term run as president
A handout picture from the Saudi Ministry of Media shows workers cleaning while some pilgrims pray in front of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque complex in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimage
World 17.08.2024
Saudis strive to prevent virus outbreak in curtailed hajj
World toll of coronavirus infections and deaths, as of July 28 at 1100 GMT
World 17.08.2024
Virus curbs tightened over fears of a second wave
Students attend an open-air school in a highland meadow in in Doodhpathri, Indian-administered Kashmir
World 17.08.2024
In Kashmir, the hills are alive with the sound of schooling
Sudan's former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, faces trial over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago
World 17.08.2024
Darfur attacks seek to derail Sudan's fragile transition: analysts
Qarchak Prison, southeast of Tehran, is notorious for the ill-treatment of political prisoners
World 17.08.2024
UK-Australian academic moved to harsh Iranian jail
Nearly a quarter of humanity lives in the four most polluted countries, all in south Asia
World 17.08.2024
Air pollution 'greatest risk' to global life expectancy
This handout satellite image obtained courtesy of Maxar Technologies shows a mockup aircraft carrier being prepared in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on February 15
World 17.08.2024
Iran targets dummy US aircraft carrier in Gulf exercises
The tentacles of coronavirus have snaked into South Africa's Eastern Cape province, delving stealthily into its under-equipped hospitals and impoverished townships. The province has recorded around 18 percent of South Africa's 311,049 coronavirus cases...
World 17.08.2024
Africa heads to coronavirus landmark with worse to come
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