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Zimbabwe's ruling party spokesman Patrick Chinamasa, seen here in 2017, has called the US ambassador a "thug" and alleged a plot to back protesters
World
17.08.2024
US summons Zimbabwe ambassador after insult over protests
Immunologist Rinke Bos leads a small team of vaccine researchers at Janssen
World
17.08.2024
'It has to work': COVID-19 vaccine researchers' high-stakes quest
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
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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
World 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
World 17.08.2024
University sacks Hong Kong protest leader loathed by China
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
Burkina Faso star Aristide Bance (L) shoots against Egypt in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final in Gabon
Other Sports 17.08.2024
Globe-trotter Bance quits CAF club title contenders Horoya
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
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