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With just nine days left until the scheduled Brexit date, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Brussels was unlikely to reach a decision this week
World
11.08.2024
Expect 'no decision' on Brexit at this week's EU summit: Juncker
US strikes, which included missiles fired by manned aircraft as well as drones, targeted Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked insurgents, Al-Shabaab
World
11.08.2024
Civilian deaths mount as US drone strikes in Somalia escalate: Amnesty
John Milne with the letter he wrote to his son Sayyad, one of 50 people killed in New Zealand’s twin mosque massacre
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11.08.2024
'My special little one': A Christchurch father's message to slain son
Thousands of people have been move to shelters amid devastating floods and landslides in Indonesia's Papua region
World
11.08.2024
Indonesia flood death toll tops 100, dozens still missing
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Myanmar hopes the temples at Mrauk U will be considered by UNESCO for world heritage status
World 11.08.2024
Eight injured in Myanmar temple town violence
Tokayev is set to serve as president until fresh elections in April next year
World 11.08.2024
New Kazakh president sworn in, proposes renaming capital
View of a pier at the dried Aculeo Lake about 70 km southwest of Santiago, Chile
World 11.08.2024
Drought wipes popular Chilean lake from the map
The situation in Venezuelan state hospitals is dire, with wards like this one for malnourished children in the town of Maracay lacking essential medicine and equipment
World 11.08.2024
Venezuela doctors under regime pressure during UN visit
The Israeli army regularly escorts groups of Jewish pilgrims to the Joseph's Tomb religious site close to the Palestinian city of Nablus
World 11.08.2024
Two Palestinians killed by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: health ministry
Under rules introduced in 2004 in Japan, transgender people who wish to change their official documents must appeal to a family court and meet strict criteria including being without reproductive capacity
World 11.08.2024
HRW urges Japan to change transgender 'sterilisation' law
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was notorious for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst bloodletting on European soil since World War II
World 11.08.2024
Karadzic faces final verdict in Bosnia war crimes case
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (left) is led into the courthouse during a 2013 appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague
World 11.08.2024
Karadzic: Many-faced Serb accused of Bosnian war atrocities
Gaza has been under a crippling blockade by Israel for more than a decade
World 11.08.2024
Hamas crackdown quells Gaza demos, but protest calls persist
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