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Held every two years, the Ouagadougou film festival lures stars from across Africa -- here, Ivorian singer Alpha Blondy performing at the opening ceremony in 2017
World
11.08.2024
Security worries cloud celebrated African film festival
The Fernandina Giant Tortoise was thought to have become extinct more than 100 years ago until this adult female was discovered by conservationists on the Galapagos island of Fernandina on February 17, 2019
World
11.08.2024
Giant tortoise thought extinct is found on Galapagos
Scientists hope the asteroid will offer clues to the origins of Earth
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11.08.2024
Japan probe Hayabusa2 makes asteroid landing
A new report said there is "mounting evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our food systems, at all levels, is declining" globally
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11.08.2024
FAO warns food supply threatened by declining biodiversity
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A line of US military vehicles drive through a checkpoint of the Internal Security Forces in Manbij as they head to their base on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city on December 30, 2018
World 11.08.2024
Around 200 US troops to remain in Syria after pullout: W.House
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has refused to apologise over comments he made accusing Poles of being anti-Semitic
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Israeli minister not backing down over Polish remarks
A South Korean driver checks sacks of flour bound for North Korea before crossing the inter-Korean border in Paju, north of Seoul
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North Korea asks UN to help address food shortage
Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old woman from Alabama who joined the Islamic State group, wants to return home
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From shy student to IS polemicist, Hoda Muthana in US crosshairs
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says 50 billion pesos could be saved through the government's strategy to combat fuel theft
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Mexico government says fuel theft down 72 percent
AFP reporters saw the jet land at the airport in Curacao, one of the focal points of a volatile standoff between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and self-declared head of state Juan Guaido
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US aid for Venezuela lands in Curacao
One day after Prime Minister Theresa May (L, pictured February 20, 2019) met EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, her Brexit minister and attorney general were back in Brussels for talks with EU negotiators
World 11.08.2024
Britain softens Brexit stance in latest EU talks
Slovakian journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were killed a year ago, sparking a government crisis
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Protests mark a year since Slovak journalist's murder
According to an investigation by human rights groups, at least five people were shot dead between October 2018 and January 2019 from a police tower in the northern Manguinhos favela -- pictured here in January 2018
World 11.08.2024
Rio police suspected of using snipers in favela
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