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The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new, even higher figure of 26.6 million Soviet deaths during WWII
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17.08.2024
Stalin purges added to vast human cost of WWII
At rehearsals, troops were wearing masks and rubber gloves but they will not do so on the day, an army source said
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17.08.2024
Putin to host Russia WWII parade ahead of key vote
Jeanine Anez assumed the presidency last November after her predecessor Evo Morales fled the country
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17.08.2024
Bolivia president signs off on September elections despite virus fears
Plastic bottles filled with rice and face masks are pictured on June 18, 2020 in Seoul, loaded on the truck of a North Korean defector planning to send the bottles towards North Korea through a border river
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17.08.2024
North Korea ready to send millions of leaflets to South
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Former US national security advisor John Bolton (L, pictured May 2018) is set to release a tell-all book that contains many damning allegations against US President Donald Trump
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Ex-Trump aide Bolton says North Korea's Kim laughing at US president
Appeals judges will hear arguments by the ICC's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, pictured here in July 2019
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ICC prosecutor appeals acquittal of Ivory Coast's Gbagbo
France is reopening cinemas and schools as it presses ahead with the easing of lockdown measures, though there are concerns in other countries about a spike in infections
World 17.08.2024
Asian markets swing as new virus cases temper reopening hopes
The water hyacinth -- nicknamed the "Nile flower" in Iraq -- is an invasive plant native to South America's Amazon basin that has ravaged ecosystems across the world, from Sri Lanka to Nigeria
World 17.08.2024
Water hyacinth pest chokes Iraq's vital waterways
Checkpoint Charlie was the site of various daring attempts by East Germans to escape to the West, since it was one of the only gaps in the mass of concrete and barbed wire that made up the Berlin Wall
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Tanks and trinkets: five things about Checkpoint Charlie
Sherri Azadi (R) said her husband Anoosheh Ashoori (L) 'went out one day to do some shopping and he never came back'
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Jailed UK-Iranian pleads with PM Johnson to help inmates
Smoke billows following an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on June 16, 2020
World 17.08.2024
Saudi downturn deepens Yemen's economic despair
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang will be Beijing's main representative at a video summit with the EU that faces a thicket of disagreements on trade, investment, human rights and national security
World 17.08.2024
With ties in the balance, EU and China hold tense summit
Analysts suspect the United States is running out the clock on the New START nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia
World 17.08.2024
US, Russia arms talks start with little hope of accord
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