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The far-right AFD and the Greens took votes from the CDU in May's EU election and in recent state polls
World
14.08.2024
Merkel's conservatives gather for stormy congress
Waters tore down barriers with transgressive fare such as "Eat Your Makeup", "Mondo Trasho", "Multiple Maniacs" and the scatological classic "Pink Flamingos" in the late 1960s and early 1970s
World
14.08.2024
'Humour saved my life', says subversive director John Waters
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves from the balcony of the National Palace during the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City on November 20
World
14.08.2024
Mexico's AMLO marks year in office amid rampant violence
In its first ever report on global trends for adolescent physical activity, the UN World Health Organization stressed that urgent action is needed to get teens off their screens and moving more
World
14.08.2024
Get moving! Four in five adolescents don't exercise enough: WHO
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A funeral procession of eight supporters of Bolivia's ex-President Evo Morales, killed when security forces lifted a siege on a fuel plant
World 14.08.2024
US suggests Morales should step aside from Bolivia vote
Officer Mario Rega Cerciello's death sparked a national outcry
World 14.08.2024
US teens' Rome police killing trial set for February
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and his and rival Benny Gantz have so far each failed to form a coalition
World 14.08.2024
Israel's Netanyahu to learn if he faces corruption indictment
Burkina Faso's army has struggled to contain an Islamist insurgency
World 14.08.2024
Burkina Faso attacks kill three soldiers in north: security sources
With apparently overwhelming support among Sidamas to form their own state, excitement is high on the streets of the regional capital Hawassa
World 14.08.2024
Ethiopia awaits result of referendum on new Sidama state
In Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state, Muslim residents have been forced to live in muddy camps for seven years after the inter-communal unrest tore apart western Myanmar
World 14.08.2024
Myanmar town offers glimmer of hope for Muslims enduring 'apartheid'
The US Congress has antagonized Beijing by passing legislation that supports human rights and democracy in Hong Kong, where months of protests and unrest have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Protesters react as police fire tear gas while t...
World 14.08.2024
Hong Kong rights bill clears US Congress, heads to Trump
AFP and a range of other media outlets were forced to retract their stories after it became clear that a UN expert had mistakenly presented four-year-old cumulative figures as if they were the current total number of migrant children in US detention
World 14.08.2024
UN expert apologises for faulty figure on children in US migration detention
Lebedev, who bought Britain's The Independent and the Evening Standard newspapers before passing ownership to his son Evgeny, told AFP he wants to see the report released
World 14.08.2024
Oligarch Lebedev backs UK release of Russia meddling probe
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