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President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo wore masks at celebrations marking the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista revolution but the leader has taken no measures to contain the coronavirus
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21.08.2024
Masked Ortega marks 41st anniversary of Nicaragua revolution
The leaders gathered briefly on Monday morning after spending the night negotiating in smaller groups
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21.08.2024
EU leaders push to break virus package deadlock
EU leaders are battling to save a massive aid package to help offset the vast economic damage caused by the coronavirus
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21.08.2024
EU tries to save virus aid plan as global deaths surge
Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa, who lives in exile in Belgium, was sentenced in absentia in April to eight years in prison for corruption during his 10-year term
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21.08.2024
Ecuador electoral council suspends party of ex-president Correa
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the Pyongyang General Hospital project
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N. Korea's Kim berates officials over troubled flagship hospital
The unmanned probe named Al-Amal -- Arabic for Hope -- took off from a Japanese space centre, marking the next step in the United Arab Emirates' ambitious space programme
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Emirati 'Hope' probe heads for Mars
Uri Berger (R), a regional archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Gonen Sharon, a professor of archaeology at northern Israel's Tel-Hai college, display ancient engravings inside a dolmen
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Ancient Golan rock art sheds light on mysterious culture
In this file photo from June 6, youths at an anti-racism solidarity rally in Tunisia re-enact the event leading to the death of George Floyd
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Black Lives Matter skirts North Africa despite everyday racism
New polls show a majority of Japanese residents believe the delayed 2020 Games should be further postponed or cancelled altogether
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Only one quarter of Japanese want Olympics next year: poll
France wants at least 400 billion euros to be available as grants, but the Frugals want to cut that back substantially
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Macron clashes with Rutte and Kurz at EU summit
The long-anticipated blast-off of the unmanned spacecraft at 6:58 am local time (2158 GMT Sunday) from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center was met with rapturous applause in the Emirates
World 21.08.2024
UAE celebrates launch of first Arab interplanetary mission
The unmanned Emirati probe, known as "Al-Amal" in Arabic, is one of three spacecraft racing to Mars, including Tianwen-1 from China and Mars 2020 from the United States
World 21.08.2024
First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan
Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapo tribe (pictured January 2020) Raoni, a chief of the Kayapo people in northern Brazil, was hospitalized for weakness, shortness of breath, poor appetite and diarrhea
World 21.08.2024
Brazil's indigenous chief Raoni in 'stable' condition
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