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Kandy is famous for the Temple of Tooth, where Buddhists believe a tooth of the Buddha is enshrined
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13.08.2024
Protests over Muslim politicians grip Sri Lankan city
British Airways has resumed flights to Islamabad after suspending services a decade ago because of security fears
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13.08.2024
British Airways resumes Pakistan flights after a 10-year absence
Chinese defence minister General Wei Fenghe defended the bloody crackdown on the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square (pictured on June 2, 1989) as the 'correct policy'
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13.08.2024
Tiananmen 'immunized China against turmoil': Chinese daily
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo worries whether a new US proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be given well-received
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13.08.2024
Pompeo airs frank Mideast peace plan views in leak
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President Donald Trump told Syria and Russia to stop bombing Syria's last jihadist stronghold Idlib, tweeting "What is the purpose, what will it get you? STOP!"
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'STOP!' bombing, killing in Syria's Idlib: Trump
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says Ottawa had "no choice" but to suspend operations at Ottawa's embassy in Venezuela
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Canada suspends operations at embassy in Venezuela
South Korean and US soldiers observe a live fire drill at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 65 kms northeast of Seoul, in April 2017, before the joint exercises were postponed
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US-S.Korea military exercises not 'necessary': Pentagon chief
Algerian protesters want allies of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down before elections are held
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Algerian presidential elections 'impossible' on July 4
US President Donald Trump says Britain should go for a no-deal Brexit and refuse to pay the "divorce bill"
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Trump urges Britain to go for no-deal Brexit
The cruise ship MSC Opera, pictured here off Sweden in 2011, knocked into a tourist boat in Venice, according to video posted online
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Cruise ship loses control, slams Venice wharf and tourist boat
Even though the Taliban and the US are set to begin a new round of peace talks in Doha this month, violence across Afghanistan continues unabated
World 13.08.2024
Three blasts hit Kabul, killing one and injuring 17
Hungarian-born photographer Robert Capa's legendary photo of the D-Day landings 75 years ago, on exhibition in Paris in 2004
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D-Day reporters: telling the world
Snow globes commemorating the June 1944 Normandy landings at a souvenir shop in Saint-Côme-du-Mont, France
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D-Day tourism boom brings crowds, and controversy, to Normandy
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