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A handful of worshippers pray at the Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque complex in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, usually teeming with pilgrims as the annual hajj pilgrimage approaches
World
20.08.2024
Curtailed hajj compounds Saudi economic woes
Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim majority nation, and neighbouring Malaysia are favoured destinations for Rohingya fleeing persecution and violence in mostly Buddhist Myanmar
World
20.08.2024
Death and despair: Rescued Rohingya describe high-seas terror
An Indian fighter jet flies over Leh, the joint capital of the union territory of Ladakh, on June 25, 2020, part of a show of strength after a border showdown between Delhi and Beijing
World
20.08.2024
China sent martial artists to India border before deadly clash: state media
Inflation anger: A protester holds a bottle of cooking oil during a demonstration in Harare last August over the cost of food
World
20.08.2024
Zimbabwe: On the edge again?
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The sun is setting on the Fessenheim nuclear powerplant
World 20.08.2024
France pulls plug on country's oldest nuclear plant
Analysts expect the election will underline the failure of Macron's centrist LREM party to gain a strong foothold at a local level
World 20.08.2024
Macron braces for setback in France's local polls
A pedestrian walks past a passed-out drug user on June 25, 2020 in Ottawa, Canada; an emergency government pandemic payment has been used by some addicts to buy drugs, and overdoses have surged
World 20.08.2024
Pandemic leads to rise in Canada fatal drug overdoses
Polish President Andrzej Duda is a key ally for the government
World 20.08.2024
Poles choose president in election delayed by pandemic
The Israeli settlement of Efrat in the southern West Bank is adjacent to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem and home to about 11,000 Israelis
World 20.08.2024
Israeli settlers back annexation, oppose Palestinian state
Diana Angola's child Jefferson was born at least 14 weeks prematurely but his condition has been improving ever since
World 20.08.2024
Colombian with COVID-19 gives birth in coma
Princeton University campus, photographed on February 4, 2020
World 20.08.2024
Princeton University removes Woodrow Wilson's name from school
Lazarus Chakwera says he answered God's call
World 20.08.2024
Malawi's new president, a former evangelical preacher
Non-essential travel to the EU has been banned since mid-March, but only after member states closed their national borders in confusion and without coordination as the pandemic grew
World 20.08.2024
EU delays decision on border reopening
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