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The grandmother of Palestinian baby Omar Yagi displays a picture of him taken before his death in Gaza last week from a serious heart condition he had been due to receive life-saving surgery in Israel for
World
20.08.2024
Gaza baby dies after Palestinians cut ties with Israel
The People's Action Party has ruled Singapore since it gained self-rule from Britain in 1959
World
20.08.2024
Singapore heads for polls despite virus outbreak
The hajj last year drew about 2.5 million pilgrims from around the world
World
20.08.2024
Muslims disappointed, but accepting, as Saudi scales back hajj
Yang Tae-sung (centre) with his son Yang Kyung-mo (left) and grandson Yang Hee-kon (right) at his home in Seoul
World
20.08.2024
Korean War echoes through the South's generations
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Israel's northern border with Lebanon is heavily fortified and intensively patrolled but still dozens of impoverished Sudanese risk their lives trying to cross in search of work
World 20.08.2024
Sudanese jobless in Lebanon risk life on Israel border
"We have taken strict measures to protect our employees and tourists," Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy told AFP
World 20.08.2024
Turkey strives to revive virus-hit tourist sector
Afghan security forces stand guard at an outpost in Kunduz Province
World 20.08.2024
Taliban killed 291 Afghan security personnel in past week: govt
British performing arts company Opera Circus produced the online mini-opera -- "Osman Bey and the Snails" -- to draw attention to Osman Kavala's case
World 20.08.2024
Snail-inspired video opera launched to aid jailed Turkish civic leader
Environmentalists warn 2020 is on track to be the most destructive year ever for the world's biggest rainforest
World 20.08.2024
$4 trillion fund holders tell Brazil to halt deforestation
The election is practically a two-horse race between President Peter Mutharika, left, and his main rival Lazarus Chakwera, who lost the last election by 159,000 votes
World 20.08.2024
Malawi votes in closely watched presidential re-run
Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 that US agents from the National Security Agency (NSA) were carrying out widespread surveillance on citizens
World 20.08.2024
Pompeo compares ex-security advisor John Bolton to Edward Snowden
The picturesque village of Hallstatt in Austria had until the coronavirus outbreak been overwhelmed by tourists
World 20.08.2024
Hallstatt, Austria's Alpine jewel, debates post-corona tourism
Two boys serving in the North Korean Army are interrogated by a US soldier after they were taken prisoner
World 20.08.2024
The Korean War: carnage, stalemate and ceasefire
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