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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has urged New Zealanders to remain calm as the first community transmission of the coronavirus was reported in more than 100 days
World
21.08.2024
Virus returns to New Zealand after 102 days
The city's Legislative Council, known as LegCo, will continue to perform its duties 'for no less than one year', State Media said
World
21.08.2024
China extends Hong Kong legislature by at least a year
Bhutan is one of the few nations in the world to report zero COVID-19 deaths
World
21.08.2024
Bhutan in virus lockdown for the first time
A Lebanese protester carries a photo of three-year-old Alexandra, who was fatally injured in the port explosion
World
21.08.2024
'I don't want to die': Blast traumatises Beirut children
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But the protesters who have scuffled with the security forces near parliament face a political elite that has been entrenched since Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war
World 21.08.2024
Lebanon blast: political game changer or hollow blow?
Agnes Chow was arrested by police officers with Hong Kong's new national security unit
World 21.08.2024
Agnes Chow: the former Hong Kong teen activist China wants to silence
It will take three to five days for all of the ivory to be cruched
World 21.08.2024
Singapore crushes massive ivory haul on eve of World Elephant Day
Until recently, Washington had treated imports from Hong Kong differently to goods from the rest of China
World 21.08.2024
Hong Kong imports to be labelled 'made in China': US customs
Sudanese farmers display their harvest of peanuts, a key crop hit by a government export ban
World 21.08.2024
Peanut traders baffled by Sudan export ban on key cash crop
Egyptians queue up to vote for a new Senate in an upper house election. The two-day vote for 200 of the Senate's 300 seats will be largely contested by candidates who back President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
World 21.08.2024
Egypt holds low-key Senate elections
CoronaVac is already being tested on 9,000 health workers in Brazil
World 21.08.2024
Indonesia starts human trials of China-made virus vaccine
Police used rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas
World 21.08.2024
Belarus election challenger flees to Lithuania after more clashes
The beluga whales have moved to a sea sanctuary in Iceland after being released from a Shanghai aquarium
World 21.08.2024
Captive beluga whales released into Iceland sea sanctuary
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