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The UN's outgoing human rights chief warned the world body's five permanent Security Council member states wield too much power and it could lead to its "collapse". China,
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Venezuela has rolled out a new currency, slashing five zeroes from the bolivar, in a bid to tame the country's rampant hyperinflation, but critics say the new measures
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia - An award-winning Cambodian land rights defender has been freed after spending two years in prison on charges many viewed as politically motivated. Surrounded by
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed a crackdown on government corruption. And he could end up implicating members of his own African National Congress party. A judicial
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French energy giant Total confirmed it is withdrawing from a multibillion-dollar gas project in Iran after it failed to obtain a waiver from US sanctions. Total signed a
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Spanish police are investigating a "terrorist attack" in Catalonia just days after the one-year anniversary of two assaults in the country's northeastern region that killed 16 people. An officer shot
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A series of coordinated attacks against security forces were reported on Monday in Russia's volatile autonomous republic of Chechnya, with authorities claiming to have killed at least two
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On August 10, 2018, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa met with his Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa in his capacity as the current chairperson of the Southern
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Iraq's Sairoon Alliance led by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr is in talks to form a coalition with the Nasr alliance led by outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, along with
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Indian health authorities have started preparing defences against the spread of disease in flood-hit Kerala state, as water receded and a huge clean-up gathered pace. By Monday, the
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Security forces have freed 149 passengers, including women and children, after Taliban fighters ambushed three buses and abducted more than 150 people in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province. Three
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Several gunshots were fired from a vehicle at the US embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Monday, hitting a window in a security cabin but causing no
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Some 200 Koreans separated from their families since the Korean War are finally reuniting this week. For six decades, most Koreans have been forbidden from sending letters or
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Calls are continuing to grow for the release of award-winning photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam who was detained by Bangladeshi police for "provocative comments" about student-led protests
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Tulcan, Ecuador - Jorge Briceno made it 1,400km across Colombia after fleeing his home in Venezuela more than week ago. After exiting Colombia on Saturday, he was just metres
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The first day of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 2018 is Sunday, August 19. For Muslims, the Hajj re-enacts the actions of the Prophet Muhammad in his "farewell pilgrimage" in
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Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, has said any US effort to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran was bound to fail, just days after Washington announced the creation
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Punishing its enemies economically, when stopping short of armed force, has long been a favoured American way of achieving foreign policy goals. Sanctions have been around for decades,
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Imran Khan has pledged to massively government costs and crack down on corruption, in his first televised address to the nation a day after being sworn in
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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - Bangladesh has for years struggled to cope with a surging drug epidemic, at the heart of which is a wildly popular meth pill smuggled
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Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, has said any US effort to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran was bound to fail, just days after Washington announced the creation
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From the free fall of the Iranian rial, to street protests demanding regime change, to the death sentence pronounced by the US towards normalised trade following the abandonment
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More than 800,000 people have been displaced in Kerala, as the death toll from the worst flooding to hit the southern Indian state jumped to at least 370,
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The death toll from the worst flooding to hit India's Kerala state in a century has jumped to 357 with losses to infrastructure pegged at almost $3bn. The
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Iraq's Supreme Court has ratified the results of the May 12 parliamentary election, its spokesman said, setting in motion a 90-day constitutional deadline for the winning parties to
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Seoul, South Korea - North Korea is set to host a temporary reunion of families separated by the Korean War, the first such event in almost three years. From
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More than two million Muslims have started the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The five-day pilgrimage must be performed by all Muslims, who are financially and physically
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A strong earthquake jolted the Indonesian island of Lombok, causing landslides on Mount Rinjani and damaging buildings, as it tries to recover from a quake earlier this month
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After almost four years of war, much of Yemen is suffering from a lack of basic services. Repeated bombings have damaged or destroyed a great deal of the
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Cristiano Ronaldo has got his Serie A campaign off to a winning start, following his $117m move from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus. The reigning champions came from
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Nayapara camp, Bangladesh - Romeda Begum's victory speech was neither long nor captivating. "It was my first experience talking to a large crowd," said the 26-year-old, recalling the
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Egypt has rolled out a new law that allows authorities, through a judge, to order the blocking of websites that "constitute a threat" to the state, as well as jail or
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Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was officially sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, marking a new beginning for politics in
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Tehran, Iran - On August 19, 1953, an American-led military coup toppled Iran's first democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a move described in a declassified
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a planned trans-Baltic natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany is exclusively an economic project, in his latest remarks over a controversial
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Kofi Annan, a former secretary-general of the United Nations and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has died aged 80. The Ghanaian diplomat passed away at a hospital in the Swiss capital,
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Just weeks after scoring a major military victory in the south, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears set to fully open a new, more complex, front in the country's
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The UN migration agency says that more than 63,000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2018. Forty-two percent of them have arrived in Spain, but
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Mexico's president-elect says the fate of a controversial new $13bn airport will be decided by a referendum. The vote will take place in October. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Protesters in Kathmandu have said a new citizenship bill treats women as second-class citizens. Nepal's parliament is debating a bill that could make it difficult for women to
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