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The World Bank ranks Burundi among the world's three poorest countries
World
17.08.2024
Little hope ahead of polls as Burundi economy hit by virus
Austria's Foreign Minister and leader of Austria's centre-right People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz was buffeted by a graft scandal a year ago
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17.08.2024
One year after Ibiza scandal, Austria's Kurz rides high
Typhoon Vongfong has dumped heavy rains since roaring ashore
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17.08.2024
Typhoon forces 140,000 from homes in virus-hit Philippines
Protesters are bidding to save a government building adorned with Picasso murals in Oslo
World
17.08.2024
Last-ditch bid to save Oslo building with Picasso murals
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President Patrice Talon, a former business tycoon, has been accused of cracking down on opponents
World 17.08.2024
Benin set for controversial local poll despite virus
The prayers of a lucky few drinkers have been answered with the release of a new batch of perhaps the world's best and most exclusive beer
World 17.08.2024
Belgian drinkers' faith rewarded as monks get beer out
Saudi Arabia has announced a tripling of its value added tax from July and halted a monthly allowance to state employees from next month as oil prices collapse
World 17.08.2024
Saudis reel from austerity drive after oil-rich 'magic decade'
Dutch children play football during the first reopening day of youth training camps in the Netherlands after the coronavirus covid-19 outbreak in The Hague, on April 29, 2020
World 17.08.2024
US issues alert over COVID-19-linked childhood illness
Men carry the dead body of a woman following a suicide attack on a maternity hospital in Kabul
World 17.08.2024
US blames IS for Kabul maternity attack, urges peace process
Protesters hold pictures of the missing Panchen Lama recognized by the Dalai Lama in a 2013 demonstration outside the Chinese consulate in Barcelona
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US presses China on Panchen Lama 25 years after disappearance
Workers dig graves in Santiago's General Cemetery after health authorities ordered them to prepare for a possible surge in deaths from COVID-19
World 17.08.2024
Chile digs thousands of graves for COVID-19 surge
In this photo released by the Venezuelan Presidency, Nicolas Maduro speaks during a televised address on May 9, 2020 to announce new arrests related to an alleged bid to topple him
World 17.08.2024
Venezuela captures 39 army 'deserters' over Maduro plot: minister
A Chilean Air Force doctor checking the temperature of personnel at the Eduardo Frei Antarctic base on the Fildes Peninsula, on May 10, 2020
World 17.08.2024
Antarctica's splendid isolation keeps coronavirus at bay
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