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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.Rickety shacks stand on stilts
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Arab coalition member state officials review efforts to ease Yemeni suffering caused by Houthis The ambassadors of the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition met in Tunisia
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Arab coalition member state officials review efforts to ease Yemeni suffering caused by Houthis The ambassadors of the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition met in Tunisia
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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top court on Thursday turned down a plea to open the Hagia Sofia, an Istanbul landmark that is now a museum after serving as both a
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Britain's mass surveillance programme has violated people's right to privacy, Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday. Judges voted six to one the effort by its intelligence agency
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Vladimir Putin says Russia's armed forces will continue to be strengthened, as they undertake their largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. For the first
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Last week, the respected and well-known American artist Hank Willis Thomas' work was exhibited by the prestigious South African gallery, the Goodman, at the Johannesburg Art Fair. One
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TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take
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TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take
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Two Russian men accused by the United Kingdom of attempting to murder a former Russian double agent and his daughter have claimed they were in the country as
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Brazil's presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro needs more surgery as he recovers from a stabbing attack last week. Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate in Brazil's October 7 presidential election, was
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The Indian government has banned 328 combination drugs in a blow to both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms, but the ban has been cheered by health activists worried
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Tesla is losing another top executive. This time, it's the electric car company's vice president of worldwide finance and operation. Justin McAnear said in a statement Wednesday that
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After spending a decade training as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe decided he wanted to share what he'd learned with the world. He has achieved his goal: his
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AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered
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An unidentified gunman shot and killed his wife and four other people in a series of shootings in southern California before taking his own life, police said. Wednesday's incident happened
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A retrospective of one of the world's great architects opens in London on Saturday. Renzo Piano designed the Shard in London, the new Whitney Museum in New York
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Stocks of the tech giant Apple have dropped slightly after its latest launch featured its largest iPhone yet, but little in the way of groundbreaking innovation. However, the
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European lawmakers have approved new rules that could force Google and Facebook to stop users uploading copyrighted content and to share revenue with writers and musicians. The vote
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Tesla is losing another top executive. This time, it's the electric car company's vice president of worldwide finance and operation. Justin McAnear said in a statement Wednesday that
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Apple is betting big on the iPhone X. And we mean big. The company announced on Wednesday its largest smartphone ever: the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max ($1,099). It's
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Middle East
AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered
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AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered
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AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered
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With a firm handshake, the presidents of China and Russia have announced stronger ties. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted China's Xi Jinping in Vladivostok - as well as
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said countries outside Indochina are too critical of politics in the region and Southeast Asian nations should be left to solve their own
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