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New Zealand police usually operate without firearms but trialled armed patrols after a lone gunman murdered 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in March 2019
World
20.08.2024
Eyeing US, New Zealand drops plans for armed police patrols
Cemeteries may provide special sections for non-Catholics, like this graveyard in northern Bruzzano, but it is not required
World
20.08.2024
For Italy's Muslims, lack of burial space deepens grief in pandemic
The crowd size on June 9 was enormous, dubbed "the million march" by Hong Kongers
World
20.08.2024
Hong Kong protests one year on: The medic
Joseph's Hong Kong protest experience has helped inspire him to study law
World
20.08.2024
Hong Kong protests one year on: The student
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Italy's far-right leader Matteo Salvini has seen a dip in popularity since coronavirus kicked in but his League party is still attracting 26 percent of Italians
World 20.08.2024
Virus puts brakes on Salvini's far-right message in Italy
Foreign residents are banned from re-entering Japan
World 20.08.2024
Virus travel bans separate families even as lockdowns ease
Israeli, Mongolian and US researchers have mapped the Northern Line of the Great Wall of China, in the Mongolian steppe, for the first time
World 20.08.2024
Part of China's Great Wall not built for war: study
Ryan was a self-declared 'charge boy' in Hong Kong's anti-government rallies -- one of the frontline protesters forming shield walls against riot police
World 20.08.2024
Hong Kong protests one year on: The frontliner
President Bashar al-Assad prepares on 17 July, 2000 to address parliament in Damascus for the first time since taking office
World 20.08.2024
Assad's 20-year rule, from Damascus Spring to pariah
Social distancing in place to watch the Dubai fountain show which has resumed as the Gulf emirate emerges from a lockdown
World 20.08.2024
Dubai charts a path to luxury industry's new normal
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (R) has deftly brought the media to heel using the same 'illiberal toolbox' as Hungary's Viktor Orban, according to the US-based Freedom House
World 20.08.2024
Ahead of vote, virus emboldens Serbian president's one-man show
Kim Yo Jong -- the influential younger sister of Kim Jong Un and a key adviser to the North Korean leader -- has been part of the decision-making on cutting communications with South Korea
World 20.08.2024
N. Korea to cut communication lines to 'enemy' South: KCNA 
Tens of thousands of protesters defied a ban on public gatherings to hold a candlelight vigil to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown
World 20.08.2024
Hong Kong seethes one year on, but protesters on the back foot
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