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The Vila Formosa cemetery is one of the largest in Sau Paulo and many fresh graves are being dug as the coronavirus continues to wreck havoc in Brazil with the death toll surpassing 80,000 on Monday.
World
21.08.2024
Brazil COVID crisis big, complicated as country itself
Protesters stand amid tear gas near the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon during a rally against police brutality late on July 24, 2020
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21.08.2024
Portland's troubles reflect a leftist history but also a racist past
The snap move is a blow to Britons seeking some Spanish sun after months of lockdown at home, including Transport Minister Grant Shapps, who is currently on holiday there, according to the Sunday Times
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21.08.2024
New UK isolation measures ruin minister's Spanish holiday
This RAMMB/NOAA satellite image obtained on June 25, 2020 shows Hurricane Hanna in the Gulf of Mexico
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21.08.2024
2020's first hurricane, Hanna, roars ashore in virus-hit Texas
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting on Saturday to implement a "maximum emergency system and issue a top-class alert" to contain the virus, official news agency KCNA said
World 21.08.2024
N. Korea declares emergency after 'runaway' virus defector returns
Hichem Mechichi, pictured in February 2020, now has a month to form a government against a backdrop of political tensions among the major parties
World 21.08.2024
Tunisia interior minister Mechichi named new PM: presidency
The blaze destroyed the 17th-century organ, as well as priceless artefacts and paintings
World 21.08.2024
Man questioned over French cathedral fire rearrested: prosecutor
South African Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel, pictured in March 2020, is among four ministers and several MPs who have so far contracted coronavirus in South Africa
World 21.08.2024
South African trade minister tests positive for COVID-19
Diabre is a seasoned politician
World 21.08.2024
Burkina opposition leader Diabre to run for president
Rio de Janeiro has canceled its New Year's Eve celebration, like the one pictured in this file photo from December 31, 2019, as the coronavirus continues to surge in Brazil
World 21.08.2024
Rio de Janeiro cancels New Year's Eve festivities over virus
Bozize is still under UN sanctions
World 21.08.2024
Former C.Africa president to run in December election
A photo released by the Hospital Dois Pinheiros shows indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire at a press conference at the hospital after being released by his doctors in Sinop, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, on July 25, 2020
World 21.08.2024
Brazil's indigenous chief Raoni leaves hospital
Land ownership was a main driver of the deadly conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003
World 21.08.2024
Gunmen kill at least 20 farmers in Sudan's Darfur: tribal chief
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