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A new version of Google's mapping service will display pandemic-related transit alerts
World
20.08.2024
Google Maps to display virus-related transit alerts
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, seen here in August 2019, will lead Russia in talks on the New START treaty
World
20.08.2024
US and Russia to resume nuclear talks, but China casts cloud
The Janjaweed was accused of applying a scorched earth policy against ethnic groups suspected of supporting rebels in Sudan's Darfur region
World
20.08.2024
Darfur war crimes fugitive in ICC custody
Map of Burundi, showing its capital Gitega and commercial hub Bujumbura
World
20.08.2024
Burundi: Poor country wracked by ethnic conflict
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Economic growth rates will be eclipsed by population growth in countries with the biggest shares of the world's poor, the World Bank said, meaning extreme poverty won't decrease in 2021
World 20.08.2024
Elevated extreme poverty to persist through 2021: World Bank
Muscovites were happy to be out again after a two-month lockdown -- but some questioned whether it was too soon to lift measures
World 20.08.2024
Traffic jams and jubilation as Moscow emerges from virus lockdown
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has imposed some of the toughest anti-coronavirus measures in Africa
World 20.08.2024
In hardline Equatorial Guinea, confinement starts to chafe
Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, seen here in 2014, has served time for "insulting the state", spreading false news, and "publicly offending a foreign country" -- Bahrain's neighbour Saudi Arabia
World 20.08.2024
Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab freed after jail time over tweet
Forces of Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar are slowing down an advance by rival fighters of the UN-recognised government on the city of Sirte, which is a gateway to the country's major oil fields
World 20.08.2024
Haftar forces slow unity govt advance on strategic Libya city
Nkurunziza, pictured on the election campaign trail on May 16
World 20.08.2024
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza dies: government
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has triggered tensions over precious Nile resources with Addis Ababa's neighbours Sudan and Egypt
World 20.08.2024
Egypt blames Ethiopia for stalling Nile dam talks
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wears a mask -- his government says it will keep the measure in place until a coronavirus vaccine is found
World 20.08.2024
Masks to be compulsory in Spain until virus 'permanently' defeated
The explosion sent bright orange flames and huge, black plumes of smoke high into the sky
World 20.08.2024
Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout
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