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Sold for anywhere between 6-10 euros, the knee-high boots mostly used by tourists tend to leak after prolonged use meaning many are immediately discarded
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14.08.2024
As tides rise, flooded Venice awash with colourful plastic boots
Virunga is home to a world-famous population of mountain gorillas
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14.08.2024
Two killed in DR Congo's Virunga national park
There are growing fears that the unchecked use of antibiotics in both medicine and agriculture will have adverse effects on the environment and on human health
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14.08.2024
Medicines pose global environmental risk, experts warn
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) told the summit $222 billion (202 billion euros) would be needed to achieve targets on family planning, maternal deaths and gender-based violence by 2030.
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14.08.2024
Donors promise $10bn for women's health at Kenya summit
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Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham (L) blocked an effort to quickly pass a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, shortly after meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump at the White House listens as US Pres...
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After meeting Erdogan, US senator blocks genocide measure
Sudanese protesters hold signs that read: "Take your uncles and aunts with you" and "You who's going home, give a lift to a couple of people"
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Sudan's youths back on the streets - to ease bus crisis
A 2017 study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ranked France in 15th place for quality of care
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'Save public hospitals', French health workers urge Macron
Anez brandished a copy of the Gospels as she arrived at the presidential palace
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Stand-in president 'brings back Bible' to Bolivian politics
China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro (L) before a summit in Brasilia of the BRICS countries where global trade was on the agenda
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Bolsonaro says Brazil to stay out of trade war
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is among those calling on India's Prime Minister to restore Aatish Taseer's overseas citizenship
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Nobel winners call on Modi to restore critic's citizenship
Much of Venice was left under water this week after the highest tide in 50 years ripped through the historic Italian city
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Italy to declare state of emergency in Venice after flood
Waheed Muzhda, who served as an official in the Taliban's 1996-2001 regime, said a bomb blast in Kabul which killed 12 people could have been an effort to sabotage the prisoner swap
World 14.08.2024
Taliban still holding Western hostages: spokesman
Islamic Jihad's secretary general Ziad al-Nakhala said his group made the decision to attack Israel on its own 
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When Hamas is not in Israel's sights
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