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Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention without formal charges or trial. Hussein, an Egyptian national held under…
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Dozens of emergency workers have been deployed to the region Dozens of people are missing and feared dead after a glacier crashed into a dam and triggered a huge flood in…
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Banging utensils and holding up a three-finger salute are signs of opposition to the coup Twitter and Instagram have become the latest social media sites to be blocked for…
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Some residents banged cooking pots in protest in Yangon on Wednesday UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged the world community to make sure Monday's coup in Myanmar…
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Queues formed at ATM machines in Yangon and other cities Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders. …
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Aung San Suu Kyi, seen here at a coronavirus vaccination clinic in January, is Myanmar's de facto leader Myanmar's military has taken control of the country after detaining…
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Dozens of supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have reportedly been detained in Vladivostok More than 500 people have been detained as rallies in support of…
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Traditional funeral rites for the former president were performed The state funeral of Ghana's longest serving leader, Jerry John Rawlings, has taken place in the capital,…
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Newly-appointed US climate tsar, John Kerry: "Glasgow the last best chance the world has to come together" US climate envoy John Kerry has told the BBC a UN climate summit in…
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A Chinese anti-submarine military plane flying in the Taiwan Strait last September Taiwan has reported a large incursion by Chinese warplanes for the second day running, a show…
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Efforts to save the group of miners sped up on Sunday after an air ventilation shaft was cleared Rescuers in China have freed 11 gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres…
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Tse Chi Lop was arrested at Amsterdam airport on Friday Police in the Netherlands have arrested the alleged head of one of the world's biggest drugs gangs, on a warrant issued…
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Riot police used batons against protesters in Moscow Russian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader…
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US President Joe Biden President Joe Biden has signed a raft of executive orders to boost the fight against Covid which has ravaged the US. Vaccination will be accelerated…
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Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th US president at the US Capitol in WashingtonVice-President Kamala Harris has taken her oath too - becoming the first woman to hold that…
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