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Sea Watch captain Carola Rackete faces charges of helping people smugglers and resisting the authorities after forcing her way past Italian customs vessels
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18.08.2024
Sea Watch captain Rackete's court hearing postponed in Italy
Migrants "are are the symbol of all those rejected by today’s globalised society" the pope said in his special mass on the Italian island of Lampedusa
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18.08.2024
Pope says migrants symbol of 'all who are rejected'
Cyclists raced through Brussels at the weekend as part of the three-week Tour de France competition
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18.08.2024
Explosives found in Brussels, no sign Tour targeted: prosecutors
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made ending the Russian-fuelled conflict in the east of his country a priority
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18.08.2024
Ukraine's Zelensky offers to meet Putin for first talks
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Thousands of Rohingya and stateless Bangladeshis attempt a sometimes perilous sea crossing in rickety boats every year to reach Malaysia or Thailand
World 18.08.2024
Dozens of boat people found stranded in Myanmar's Rakhine: official
Detaining children even for short periods under good conditions can have a serious impact on their children's health, said Bachelet
World 18.08.2024
UN rights chief 'shocked' by conditions at US migrant detention centres
Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, seen here in 2017, disappeared in September while on a visit to China
World 18.08.2024
Wife of Chinese ex-head of Interpol sues over disappearance
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a former McKinsey consultant, has pledged to create jobs and get rid of obstacles to business
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Mitsotakis becomes Greece's new PM on vow to end economic crisis
Kashmir, ruled in part but claimed in full by both countries, has suffered decades of unrest
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UN blasts India, Pakistan over Kashmir inaction
Rwandan-born Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda faces 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court
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Congolese 'Terminator' rebel guilty of war crimes
Defections by South Koreans to the North are extremely rare, although tens of thousands have fled in the opposite direction in the decades since the end of the Korean War
World 18.08.2024
South Korean follows parents in rare defection to North: media
Conventional military firepower has always been thought of as an adequate defence for Australia, but Trump's disregard for alliances means some strategists are discussing the need for a homegrown nuclear deterrent
World 18.08.2024
From boomerangs to A-bombs? Australia debates nukes
The Taliban on Sunday spoke about women's role in a future settlement, according to one of the delegates
World 18.08.2024
Afghan rivals resume talks for peace
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