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Kim Yo Jong has long been one of her brother's most trusted advisers and among the most powerful women in North Korea, but her public profile is mounting rapidly and she has been mooted as a potential successor
World
20.08.2024
Kim Yo Jong: North Korean leader's increasingly powerful sister
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (centre) has said that ruling by decree allowed him to respond quickly and effectively during the virus emergency
World
20.08.2024
Hungary MPs approve end of controversial emergency virus powers
The text calls on UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to include updates on police brutality against people of African descent in the United States and elsewhere at each future council session
World
20.08.2024
Africa urges UN probe of US 'systemic racism', police violence
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Haftar commander Mahmoud al-Werfalli in 2017 over similar alleged crimes in Libya's second city Benghazi but he remains at large
World
20.08.2024
HRW calls on Libya's Haftar to probe alleged war crimes by his men
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Tensions have been rising on the border between India and China in recent weeks
World 20.08.2024
India says three soldiers killed in clash on Chinese border
The Korean joint liaison office in Kaesong opened to fanfare in 2018. South Korea says the North has now blown up the office
World 20.08.2024
Office politics: Symbol of inter-Korean liaison reduced to rubble
Chinese authorities are testing thousands of people as a new cluster of coronavirus cases sparked alarm
World 20.08.2024
New virus cases in China, N. Zealand sound pandemic alarm
A general view of fields and buildings outside Kaesong in North Korea, seen across the Demilitarized Zone from the South Korean island of Ganghwa
World 20.08.2024
North Korea blows up inter-Korean liaison office near border with South
Every year illnesses such as dengue fever and malaria infect more than half a million people and kill hundreds in India
World 20.08.2024
Virus-hit India's overwhelmed health workers brace for monsoon
A landmine is exploded during Turkish demining operations in the Salah al-Din area, south of the Libyan capital Tripoli
World 20.08.2024
Landmines spell silent threat in Libyan former war zone
Technicians from Israeli firm Kando extract sewage samples from a manhole near the beach, in the southern coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon
World 20.08.2024
Israeli firm monitors sewers in fight against coronavirus
Muslim pilgrims gather in August 2019 around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca prior to the start of last year's hajj pilgrimage
World 20.08.2024
Saudi faces perilous hajj call as virus spikes
'Anything is better than pretending that the market can deliver healthcare -- because it can't,' said Angus Deaton
World 20.08.2024
A world redrawn: Nobel winner Deaton warns virus could worsen inequality
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