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An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday urged member states to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists before a G20 nations’ summit which Riyadh will be…
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Park Won Soon is reported missing The mayor of the South Korean capital Seoul, Park Won Soon, was reported missing by his daughter on Thursday, national broadcasters and the…
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The statue was removed after being targeted by arsonists, the artist behind it said A quirky wooden sculpture of US First Lady Melania Trump is reported to have been set on fire…
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Zhangrun was detained on Monday A professor who criticised China's handling of the coronavirus crisis has been detained by authorities. Xu Zhangrun, who has been under house…
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The call took place last week but details about it have just been released The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken to young leaders about equal rights - with Harry saying the…
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Authorities have launched a massive response to the virus outbreak in Melbourne The border between Australia's two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), is to…
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President Lazarus Chakwera Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday ordered his inauguration ceremony be scaled down amid a surge of coronavirus cases, dampening…
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British Prime Minister Johnson The easing of lockdown rules in England is the "biggest step yet on the road to recovery", the prime minister has said. Many businesses - including…
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Jamal Khashoggi's Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, told journalists: "We trust in Turkish justice." Twenty Saudi nationals have gone on trial in absentia in Turkey for the murder…
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Hussein Walugembe became frustrated after going to the police station several times A 29-year-old motorbike taxi rider in Uganda has died after setting fire to himself inside…
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in 2005 British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, an ex-girlfriend of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged in the…
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State-owned Ethiopian Television is broadcasting some scenes from the funeral service The funeral has been held for Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa as unrest over his death has…
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A street at Shibuya in down town Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Anthony Maliki, Apex News photos The number of people with dementia who were reported missing grew 3 per cent…
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Haile Selassie was Ethiopia's last emperor A statue of former Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie has been destroyed in a park in Wimbledon, south-west London. Police are…
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