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Girls attend the wake of Dawna Ray Langford and two of her children, who were among nine victims killed in an attack authorities have blamed on a drug cartel, at La Mora Ranch in Sonora State, Mexico, on November 7, 2019
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14.08.2024
Mexico Mormons live under threat of narco violence
The conflict in Syria has been fueled by arms supplied to both sides by foreign powers in violation of a UN arms embargo, a US study concludes
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14.08.2024
UN report finds Jordan, Turkey, UAE violated Libya arms embargo 
A team of forensic experts work in the site where seven bodies were found inside three abandoned vehicles
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14.08.2024
Families hold first funerals for Mormon massacre victims
The conflict in Syria has been fueled by arms supplied to both sides by foreign powers in violation of a UN arms embargo, a US study concludes
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14.08.2024
Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have "routinely" violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, according to a confidential report by UN experts seen Thursday by AFP.
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The new strain, HIV-1 Group M subtype L, has been recorded in three people, the clinical threshold for classifying subtypes
World 14.08.2024
A US pharmaceutical firm has said it has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutating viruses.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warns that growing global debt leaves governments and households vulnerable to a rise in interest rates
World 14.08.2024
The global debt load has surged to a new all-time record equivalent to more than double the world's economic output, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned Thursday.
"What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO," Macron told the Economist magazine in an interview.
World 14.08.2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says he believes NATO is undergoing "brain death," lamenting a lack of coordination between Europe and the United States and unilateral actions in Syria by key member Turkey, in an interview published Thursday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Malaysia's foreign minister that the US was prepared to host the APEC summit next year
World 14.08.2024
An offer by the United states to host a Pacific rim summit in America next year after Chile abruptly cancelled this year's event was "not a good idea", Malaysia's foreign minister said Thursday.
Custodian of the Kartarpur shrine Ramesh Singh Arora says Sikhs are very excited ahead of the opening of a corridor that will allow pilgrims to cross from India into Pakistan
World 14.08.2024
A corridor that will allow Sikhs to cross from India into Pakistan to visit one of the religion's holiest sites is set to open Saturday, with thousands expected to make a pilgrimage interrupted by decades of conflict. 
Nigerian soldiers have been caught up in a jihadist insurgency for more than a decade
World 14.08.2024
At least 10 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and nine severely injured in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram fighters in restive northeast Nigeria, military sources said Thursday.
Kiir (R) and Machar (L), have only met a handful of times since inking a September 2018 truce
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South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar will hold rare face-to-face talks Thursday in Uganda, their representatives said, as time runs out for the rivals to form a power-sharing government.
Okinawa Zoo and Museum released photos of the types of stolen turtle including the rare Ryukyu leaf species
World 14.08.2024
More than 60 endangered turtles have disappeared from a zoo in Japan's southernmost province in a suspected theft, officials said Thursday.
FDJ, Europe's second-biggest betting company, came into being as the successor of a national lottery founded in 1933 to help soldiers disfigured in World War I and struggling farmers
World 14.08.2024
France's state-owned lottery monopoly kicked off its shift to private hands Thursday, opening the sale of shares in the company that is likely to bring nearly two billion euros ($2.2 billion) to government coffers.
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