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Hemp looks and smells like marijuana but contains very little tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is what gets users high
World
21.08.2024
'Not marijuana': US hemp farmers battle tough market and thieves
In power since 1994, Lukashenko has kept his landlocked homeland wedged between Russia and EU member Poland largely stuck in a Soviet time warp
World
21.08.2024
Lukashenko: Soviet-style autocrat on Europe's doorstep
Doves fly during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, at the city's Peace Park
World
21.08.2024
Nagasaki marks 75 years since atomic bombing
For those unable to afford prohibitively high rents in Cairo, the burial chambers provide shelter to eke out a largely tranquil, if bizarre, existence side-by-side with dead sultans, singers and saints
World
21.08.2024
Egypt highway uproots graves, homes in 'City of Dead'
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US Health Secretary Alex Azar will meet with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during a three-day visit to the self-ruled island
World 21.08.2024
US to begin highest level Taiwan visit in decades
Presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya describes herself as 'a symbol of change' for Belarus, which has been under strongman rule for nearly three decades
World 21.08.2024
Tikhanovskaya: Stay-at-home mum rocking Belarus polls
Seniors at Saint-Louis de Gonzague school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, gather after their graduation photo on August 4, 2020; with Haitian schools set to reopen nationwide, a huge opportunity gap separates them
World 21.08.2024
As the virus deepens Haiti's schooling gap, some fight back
Manifestación para reclamar justicia de periodistas, amigos y familiares del periodista mexicano Javier Valdez en el primer aniversario de su muerte, el 15 de mayo de 2018, en Culiacán, Sinaloa
World 21.08.2024
Journalists in southern Mexico 'live in terror' of gangs' violence
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is heading to Poland as part of a growing relationship, is welcomed on a February 2019 visit by Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz
World 21.08.2024
Amid Germany troop pullout, Pompeo seeks friendly faces to east
Chad President Idriss Deby (pictured June 2020) said his country will "have this Boko Haram phenomenon for a long time yet"
World 21.08.2024
Chad says Boko Haram wreaking havoc despite offensive
Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (pictured August 7, 2020) poses greatest challenge in years to long-ruling strongman Alexander Lukashenko
World 21.08.2024
Leading Belarus opposition candidate's campaign manager detained: spokeswoman
People look on as firefighters work at the scene where a fire broke out in an apartment block in Bohumin, eastern Czech Republic on August 8, 2020, killing eleven people including three children
World 21.08.2024
Eleven killed in suspected arson at Czech apartment block
Lebanese protesters celebrate storming the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beirut
World 21.08.2024
How Beirut blast briefly handed foreign ministry to protesters
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