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Satellite data showed 3,859 new outbreaks of fire, of which some 2,000 were concentrated in the Amazon region
World
18.08.2024
Brazil's Amazon basin fires keep surging
Pope Francis is set to visit Madagascar where pro-abortion groups are urging him to take a new stance on the practice which is illegal there
World
18.08.2024
Madagascar's 'angel makers' flourish in ban on abortion
The dollar is the world's top currency, but for how much longer?
World
18.08.2024
Could cryptocurrency dethrone the dollar?
Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe - home to the world's largest elephant population - had asked for the right to sell ivory acquired through natural deaths, confiscations and culling
World
18.08.2024
Southern Africa threatens to quit wildlife trade monitor
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Turkish micro artist Hasan Kale paints his intricate pieces on tiny, discarded items such as a piece of popcorn
World 18.08.2024
Turkey's 'Microangelo' turns tiny objects into artworks
Thick, black smoke swirled from a large fire started by masked Hong Kong protesters at a barricade on a major thoroughfare
World 18.08.2024
Hong Kong reels from worst clashes in months as protesters battle police
Joanna Skotnicka-Fiuk is deputy mayor of the small central city of Wielun whose fate has been compared with Guernica -- albeit the Nazi air raid on the latter town in Spain's Basque country during the Spanish Civil War is far better known
World 18.08.2024
Poland, Germany recall first WWII Nazi bombs 80 years on
Pollution levels have long exceeded EU limits in the southern German city of Munich
World 18.08.2024
EU court to hear case on jailing MPs over air pollution
Young men are flocking to barbershops in Khartoum for modern hairstyles once banned under Omar al-Bashir's regime
World 18.08.2024
In post-Bashir Sudan, change comes in many guises
The guards are chosen for their physical stamina, communist party dedication, and easy-on-the-eyes appearance
World 18.08.2024
Uncle Ho's minders: The protectors of Vietnam's embalmed leader
Washington wants to end its military involvement in Afghanistan and has been talking to the Taliban since at least 2018
World 18.08.2024
US, Taliban on 'threshold' of deal: US Afghan envoy
EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (C, pictured August 22, 2019) said the most contentious element of the Brexit agreement, the so-called backstop mechanism aimed at keeping the Northern Irish border open, must remain
World 18.08.2024
EU's Barnier says Brexit deal cannot be changed
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani (handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on August 27, 2019) warned that Iran would further reduce its nuclear commitments if "Europe cannot operationalise its commitments"
World 18.08.2024
Iran's Rouhani warns Macron of looming nuclear step
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