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Chinese Communist Party Secretary for Xinjiang Chen Quanguo, seen here during the National People's Congress in Beijing in March 2019, has been slapped with US sanctions over the treatment of the Uighur minority
World
17.08.2024
US punishes senior Chinese officials over Uighur rights
Mounds of soil mark where graves are dug for victims of coronavirus at the Honingnestkrans cemetery in Pretoria
World
17.08.2024
Graves dug for coronavirus victims spook South Africans
Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army march on Red Square in Moscow during a June 2020 parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, amid US pressure for both Russia and China to join nuclear arms talks
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17.08.2024
US invites China to arms control talks, seeing opening
The virus has killed nearly 550,000 people
World
17.08.2024
WHO launches pandemic response probe
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The fires erupted in eastern Ukraine on Monday
World 17.08.2024
Ukraine says forest fires under control
Notre-Dame was partly destroyed by fire in April last year
World 17.08.2024
'Consensus' Notre-Dame spire should be rebuilt as it was
Australia became independent from Britain in 1901 but Queen Elizabeth II is still head of state
World 17.08.2024
Queen's letters on Australian PM's sacking to be released in full
The autonomous and remote Nenets region of northern Russia was gripped by anti-government protests in May
World 17.08.2024
Secluded Arctic region rejects Putin in rare protest
Police stand guard outside a public housing estate locked down in Melbourne due to a spike in coronavirus cases
World 17.08.2024
Five million begin lockdown in Australian city
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that foreign students (similar to the students pictured in March 2020) whose entire courses have moved online because of the coronavirus pandemic must return to their home country
World 17.08.2024
Foreign students fear deportation over Trump visa threat
The devastation has been widespread
World 17.08.2024
Japan rescuers battle to reach thousands trapped by floods
The murder sparked a national outcry
World 17.08.2024
US student accused of Rome policeman's murder 'beaten' in custody
A team of more than 60 medics and medical students are now fielding at least 3,000 calls per week at a call centre in Bishkek 
World 17.08.2024
Coronavirus 'second wave' batters ex-Soviet Central Asia
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