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Members of a 12,000-strong volunteer workforce attend a rally to pledge support for a typhoon recovery campaign ordered by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un at the Kumsusan palace in Pyongyang
World
21.08.2024
Nearly 60 bridges, 2,000 houses wrecked by typhoon in North Korea
Polls opened across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a government decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic
World
21.08.2024
Ethiopia's Tigray region defies PM Abiy with 'illegal' election
Mohamed Hagi (left), Somaliland's new representative to Taiwan bumps elbows with Foreign Minister Joseph Wu
World
21.08.2024
Somaliland launches representative office in Taiwan
IMAGESAn explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan's vice president Amrullah Saleh convoy rocked central Kabul early Wednesday, sending thick plume of smoke in the sky. "This terrorist attack has failed and Saleh is safe and fine," said Razwan Mura...
World
21.08.2024
Afghanistan VP lightly wounded in deadly Kabul blast
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Photographer Marc Progin, 74, pleaded not guilty to "abetting public disorder"
World 21.08.2024
Swiss photographer on trial in Hong Kong over protest clash
While tattooing itself is not illegal in South Korea, it is classed as a medical procedure and may only be carried out by a fully qualified doctor
World 21.08.2024
Marked for life: South Korea's tattoo artists seek legalisation
IMAGESAn explosion targeting the convoy of Afghanistan's vice president Amrullah Saleh convoy rocked central Kabul early Wednesday, sending thick plume of smoke in the sky. "This terrorist attack has failed and Saleh is safe and fine," said Razwan Mura...
World 21.08.2024
Blast in Kabul targets Afghan VP Saleh's convoy: officials
Festival goers looking at exhibits at Yimin temple in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan
World 21.08.2024
Taiwan's polarising pig festival draws smaller sacrifices
US President Donald Trump has promised to end what he calls America's endless wars
World 21.08.2024
Trump to announce US troop withdrawals from Iraq, Afghanistan
The British government has admitted it will break international law by rewriting parts of its Brexit divorce treaty
World 21.08.2024
UK admits to breaking EU treaty as top legal official quits
A blaze on the oil tanker New Diamond was finally brought under control on Wednesday, the Sri Lankan navy said
World 21.08.2024
Kilometre-long slick left by burning oil tanker off Sri Lanka
The foreign ministers of 10 Southeast Asian countries begin an online summit Wednesday
World 21.08.2024
US-China tensions set to dominate Southeast Asia summit
Nearly the entire Moria camp was on fire early Wednesday, according to an AFP photographer
World 21.08.2024
Greece's main migrant camp evacuated after major blaze
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