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Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April last year to seize the capital Tripoli from the UN-recognised Government of National Accord
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17.08.2024
Libya unity govt seizes airbase in new blow for rival Haftar
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, seen here at a political rally in March, has announced his resignation after months of political uncertainty
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17.08.2024
Lesotho's embattled PM Thabane says stepping down
Pope John Paul II led teh Roman Catholic church for 27 years from 1978 to his death in 2005
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17.08.2024
Poles mark century since birth of Pope John Paul II
The apartment building where Felicien Kabuga, who has been known as the financier of the Rwanda genocide, was arrested on May 16, 2020, in Asnieres-sur-Seine in the northwestern suburbs of Paris
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17.08.2024
US hails arrest in France of Rwanda genocide 'financier'
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Each shift at the Sibanye-Stillwater platinum mine in South Africa now begins with a temperature check, part of screening measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus
World 17.08.2024
S.African mines reconfigure to survive virus amid job lose fears
Ireland has launched the first step of what is planned as a five-stage process of easing the lockdown in place since March
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Ireland cautiously begins to lift virus lockdown
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had "every legal power" to include Taiwan
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Pompeo says Taiwan exclusion 'further damages' WHO credibility
China's Xi Jinping said China supports a 'comprehensive evaluation' of the global response to the pandemic, and that it should be led by the WHO
World 17.08.2024
Xi defends China's virus response, offers vaccine when ready
COVID-19 has killed more than 315,000 people worldwide and caused devastating economic damage
World 17.08.2024
Calls for reform, vaccine for all as landmark WHO meet opens
American blues musician Lucky Peterson, pictured at the 2015 Newport Jazz Festival,
World 17.08.2024
American bluesman Lucky Peterson dies
Sri Lanka's military has been heavily involved in efforts to fight coronavirus
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Sri Lanka parade scaled down after sailors contract coronavirus
Hand sanitizer available for clients and tables set apart are part of the rules for reopening in Milan
World 17.08.2024
Restaurants reopen in parts of Europe, but no mad rush
Trump has criticised Ghebreyesus as too close to China
World 17.08.2024
WHO chief Tedros in the eye of the storm
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