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Opposition leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo says he will be inaugurated as president on Thursday, despite a continuing dispute over the results of the December 29 elections
World
16.08.2024
Candidate in chaotic G.Bissau vote says inauguration set for Thursday
Man in a hurry: Guinean President Alpha Conde, centre, at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa this month
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16.08.2024
Alpha Conde, Guinea's stern-willed leader
The ruling is a major victory for terminally ill patients, doctors and assisted suicide organisations who argued the existing assisted suicide law went too far
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16.08.2024
German court scraps ban on professional assisted suicide
Egyptian honour guards carry the coffin of former president Hosni Mubarak before his funeral ceremony at Cairo's Mosheer Tantawy mosque in Cairo
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16.08.2024
Egypt to bury ousted autocrat Mubarak with military honours
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Protesters faced off against riot police on the island for the second day
World 16.08.2024
Greek islanders strike as migrant camp row intensifies
Orthodox churches in Montenegro such as the Ostrog monastery are at the centre of a political tug of war
World 16.08.2024
Holy row: the battle over Montenegro's Orthodox faith
Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will represent the Maldives at the UN's highest court in the Rohingya case
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Maldives gets Amal Clooney to fight for Rohingya at UN court
The state-owned power company Eskom soaks up substantial amounts of public funds
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South African finance minister to walk budget tightrope
Riot police deploy in Managua after Nicaraguan opposition parties called for a protest against the government of President Daniel Ortega
World 16.08.2024
Clashes after Nicaragua's opposition broadens anti-Ortega coalition
Riot police deploy in Managua after Nicaraguan opposition parties called for a protest against the government of President Daniel Ortega
World 16.08.2024
Nicaragua's opposition broadens anti-Ortega coalition
Supporters of cock and bull fighting protest in Lima ahead of a high court decision on the activities' future
World 16.08.2024
Peru's top court rejects bid to ban cock, bull fighting
Police officers close a hotel near the city centre in Innsbruck on February 25 after a woman who worked there was confirmed to have coronavirus
World 16.08.2024
Austria places Innsbruck hotel under lockdown over coronavirus
Passengers wear protective masks at Milan's main railway station following security measures taken in northern Italy against the novel coronavirus. Milan is just north of the main centre of infection.
World 16.08.2024
Italy coronavirus outbreak spreads south as cases spike
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