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Hong Kong marks the 23rd anniversary of its handover to China as the city's controversial new security law was imposed by Beijing on Tuesday and protests banned.
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17.08.2024
Hong Kong marks handover anniversary with new security law arrests
Burundi's new President Evariste Ndayishimiye says the government is now committed to fighting the new coronavirus
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17.08.2024
Burundi changes tack as president declares COVID-19 'biggest enemy'
Russians are voting on constitutional reforms that could make Vladimir Putin president for life
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17.08.2024
Russians set to back reforms allowing Putin to extend rule
The US Space Force will have a command unit known as SpOC, raising eyebrows from "Star Trek" fans
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17.08.2024
Hat tip to 'Star Trek'? US Space Force names new unit 'SpOC'
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COLCOA -- which stands for "City of Lights, City of Angels" -- opened in 2019 with Ladj Ly's gritty Oscar-nominated drama "Les Miserables"
World 17.08.2024
Hollywood French film festival postponed to 2021
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned Congress that the US was headed in the "wrong direction" on the pandemic
World 17.08.2024
US could hit 100,000 new virus cases a day: Fauci
Pakistan's PIA has been barred from operating in the European Union after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its pilots for holding fake or dubious licences
World 17.08.2024
Pakistan's PIA suspended in Europe over fake pilot licence scandal
Graphic showing the difference in working hours lost in the first and second quarters of 2020, compared to the fourth quarter 2019, according to the International Labour Organisation.
World 17.08.2024
Global employment crisis deepening, equivalent of 400 mn jobs lost: UN
The Kalinga camp in Masisi Territory, eastern DR Congo, houses nearly 9,000 people who have fled their homes
World 17.08.2024
DR Congo violence displaces over one million in six months: UN
Critics and western governments fear Hong Kong's security law will stifle freedoms in the semi-autonomous city
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Beijing says HK security law a 'sword' over lawbreakers' heads
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in Myanmar
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Myanmar finds soldiers guilty in Rohingya atrocities court martial
The Taliban have reaffirmed their commitment to a deal signed with Washington to draw down the Afghan conflict
World 17.08.2024
Taliban reaffirm commitment to US deal in Pompeo call
King Philippe of Belgium expressed his 'deepest regrets' for the harm done during Belgian colonial rule in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo
World 17.08.2024
Belgian king expresses 'deepest regrets' over DR Congo colonial past
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