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Opposition supporters in the capital Minsk keep the pressure on Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, with a fresh demonstration planned for Sunday
World
21.08.2024
Belarus protesters keep pressure on Lukashenko with new march
Activists have remained on the streets practically every night in Portland
World
21.08.2024
Tear gas, fire bombs as police declare Portland protest a 'riot'
Map of Tunisia locating the coastal city of Sousee where a knife attack on Sunday killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another with three assailants also killed.
World
21.08.2024
Tunisia knife attack kills officer, 3 'terrorists' shot dead
Fireboats battling to extinguish a fire on the Panamanian-registered crude oil tanker New Diamond off Sri Lanka's eastern coast
World
21.08.2024
Race to assess damage to stricken oil tanker off Sri Lanka
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The shooting of Jacob Blake touched off a new round of demonstrations
World 21.08.2024
Blake says 'hurts to breathe' in video from hospital bed
Tam, a former radio presenter known "Fast Beat", was arrested at his home in north east Hong Kong
World 21.08.2024
Hong Kong activist arrested for 'seditious words' before rally
Junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita is a battle-hardened soldier
World 21.08.2024
Mali's ill-equipped army in spotlight after coup
Ranj Abderrahman Cohen, an Iraqi Kurdish Jew, stands before a ruined synagogue in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq
World 21.08.2024
Iraq's Jews fled long ago, heritage struggles on
China is trying to highlight the recovery in Wuhan, the central city which was ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic
World 21.08.2024
China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan
Over the past decade Vladimir Putin's government has spent billions of dollars to renovate Soviet-era towns and cities, and in 2017 authorities approved a 50 billion ruble ($663 million) plan to transform Svobodny
World 21.08.2024
Russian ex-Gulag town on China's doorstep eyes rebirth
A glass blower shapes traditional water pitchers at the Uniglass factory in Tripoli, north Lebanon, where glass broken in the Beirut port explosion is being repurposed
World 21.08.2024
From window to jug: Lebanese recycle glass from Beirut blast
Products made in Hong Kong are having to be relabelled as 'Made in China' if they are bound for the US
World 21.08.2024
'Made in Hong Kong' brand suffers as US-China tensions deepen
Transgender sex worker Luna Veras, 47, is seen in her apartment in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on August 12, 2020; the pandemic has drastically reduced her income
World 21.08.2024
Pandemic devastating to Dominican transgender sex workers
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