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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site
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18.08.2024
Babylon, world wonder and jewel of Iraq's national narrative
A man holds a placard reading "Salvini is the only captain"
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18.08.2024
Malta heads off crisis with Italy migrant swap
Sea-Watch skipper Carola Rackete, seen Monday after a court hearing, slammed German and Italian authorities for not wanting to deal with the "hot potato" issue posed by the migrants she brought ashore
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18.08.2024
Sea-Watch rescue ship captain lashes Berlin, Rome
Accused: South Africa's minister of public enterprises, Pravin Gordhan
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18.08.2024
Senior S.African minister lied to parliament: watchdog
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Plumes of smoke rise from the Tripoli suburb of Tajoura after it was hit by an air strike launched by forces loyal to Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar
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1,000 dead in three-month fight for Libya's Tripoli
Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat opened the 35th Ordinary Session of the Executive Committee of the African Union (AU) at the Palais des Congres in Niamey.
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Landmark trade deal tops African Union summit agenda
Iraq had been trying since 1983 to have the site recognised by UNESCO
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UNESCO lists Iraq's Babylon as World Heritage Site 
Rackete has gone into hiding
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Sea-Watch captain to sue Italy's Salvini for defamation
Former soldiers find themselves destitute in the city of Kuito, which was the Unita headquarters and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during Angola's 27-year war.
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Long after Angola's civil war, its veterans are destitute
African Union ministers began talks in Niamey ahead of this weekend's summit, where leaders will formally launch a continent-wide free trade pact
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African free trade zone expected to begin in 2020
In this file photo from June 2012, a Tunisian woman, wearing a niqab, walks in front of police officers after Friday prayers
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Niqab banned in Tunisian government offices
In this file photo from late May, Algerian protesters are seen from underneath a giant national flag
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Thousands protest in Algeria capital, break police cordon
Venezuela has been caught in a political standoff between President Nicolas Maduro's government and National Assembly leader Juan Guaido
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Rule of law in Venezuela 'eroded': UN rights chief
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