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Islamist militants have attacked and burned villages in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado region
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15.08.2024
Jihadist insurgency grows in northern Mozambique
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has ended his boycott of a recount
World
15.08.2024
Afghanistan poll results expected in coming days: official
Sakharov Prize-winner Ilham Tohti, a member of China's Uighur Muslim minority, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014
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15.08.2024
China calls EU rights prize-winning Uighur 'a terrorist'
Fudan University's charter change quickly became a hot topic on social media
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15.08.2024
Chinese students defiant as university charter cuts 'freedom of thought'
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Top of Boris Johnson's to-do list will be a bill to ratify the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union
World 15.08.2024
British PM sets out plan for power
Brazil is home to hundreds of foreign ex-convicts -- like onetime South African drug runner Portia Dliwayo, seen here -- who struggle to survive while completing their parole requirements
World 15.08.2024
On parole, foreign ex-convicts battle to survive in Brazil
For the past two decades, global tobacco use has been slowly dwindling
World 15.08.2024
'Turning point' as number of male smokers drops: WHO
Some 100 fires have been burning for weeks in the Australian state of New South Wales, including a "mega-blaze" ringing Sydney
World 15.08.2024
Bushfire state of emergency declared in Australia
The German government has introduced legislation that would see "conversion therapy" made punishable with up to a year in prison and fines of up to 30,000 euros ($33,000)
World 15.08.2024
Germany moves to ban gay 'conversion therapy'
ArcelorMittal is a major employer in Liberia and has invested heavily in rail and port infrastructure to export iron ore used in the production of steel
World 15.08.2024
Steel giant ArcelorMittal threatens to freeze Liberia investments
President Ali Bongo, pictured here at a wreath-laying ceremony in August, has been in power for 10 years, succeeding his father Omar. Speculation about his health has swirled since he suffered a stroke in October 2018
World 15.08.2024
Gabon's Bongo opens summit after stroke
Map locating Kaiga in Chad where Boko Haram jihadists killed several people on Tuesday.
World 15.08.2024
Boko Haram jihadists kill 14 in attack on western Chad village
Jewher Ilham, daughter of Ilham Tohti, Uighur economist and human rights activist, delivers a speech during the award ceremony for her father's 2019 European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg
World 15.08.2024
Jailed Uighur's daughter receives EU rights prize
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