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In the first sign that the sanctions were beginning to bite, Swiss contractor Allseas suspended its Nord Stream 2 activities
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15.08.2024
Germany, EU hit out at US over US sanctions on Russian gas pipeline
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, where the acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi in 2018 provoked violent protests across the country
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15.08.2024
Pakistani professor sentenced to death for blasphemy
Uber has around two million active users in Colombia, and roughly 88,000 drivers
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15.08.2024
Colombia orders Uber to suspend app services
Community police patrol in the Mexican indigenous town of Cheran, which is practically an independent state won back by locals from illegal loggers and drug cartels
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15.08.2024
A Mexican indigenous town's environmental revolt
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Smoke billows from a building following a reported bombardment by pro-Syrian government forces in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's Idlib province, the country's last major opposition bastion, on December 20, 2019
World 15.08.2024
Tens of thousands of civilians flee renewed Syria violence
Pope Francis handed the UN chief a copy of a document hailed as a milestone in the dialogue between Christians and Muslims
World 15.08.2024
The Pope and UN chief call for religious and environmental tolerance
Supporters wave banners outside the London court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was testifying about how he was spied on inside the Ecuadoran embassy
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WikiLeaks' Assange testifies in embassy spying case
Idris Elba, pictured at the world premiere of 'Hobbs & Shaw' in July
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Idris Elba conferred Sierra Leone citizenship
The ICC's preliminary probe has looked into the 2014 Gaza war and violence on the Israeli-Gaza border in 2018
World 15.08.2024
ICC to probe 'war crimes' in Palestinian territories
Kenya wants to be a regional leader in textile production
World 15.08.2024
Kenya backs farming of Monsanto-created GM crop
Return to light: Wendgoundin Sawadogo climbs back up after emptying a latrine in Ouagadougou
World 15.08.2024
The grim life of Burkina's cesspit cleaners
The UN has had a peacekeeping force in DR Congo since 1999
World 15.08.2024
Job cuts in UN mission in DR Congo upset local workers
Gusts from the storm reached 120 kilometres an hour in Saint-Etienne, near Lyon, causing a roof to be ripped from a building
World 15.08.2024
Storm Elsa batters parts of Europe, four dead
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