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Young men haul a burning tyre during protests at Tygerberg Raceway near Cape Town. The motor-racing venue was invaded on August 6 by people demanding land
World
21.08.2024
Pandemic amplifies S.Africa's urban housing woes
Women from the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation stitch Personal Protective Equipment for frontline coronavirus workers in Hyderabad
World
21.08.2024
Paris masks up as European leaders warn virus fight getting tougher
Hong Kong's administration insists the security law has not impinged on the rights to freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed to the territory when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997 but a number of pro-democracy figures have left the city
World
21.08.2024
China arrests 12 fleeing Hong Kong by speedboat: city police
Vaccination programmes like this one in Nigeria in 2017 eradicated wild poliovirus in Africa but vaccine-derived polio still poses a threat in many countries
World
21.08.2024
Sudan to launch mass polio vaccination after outbreak
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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper (pictured in Washington on March 4, 2020) accused China of 'destabilising' the Pacific region
World 21.08.2024
US defence chief says China 'destabilising' Pacific
Police say 35 tonnes of gloves used at hospitals were ready to be sold
World 21.08.2024
India battles black market in used gloves and masks
A file photo taken on December 26, 2018 of an Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, during a graduation ceremony of Israeli air force pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force base in Israel's Negev desert
World 21.08.2024
F-35 hiccup on road to Israel-UAE accord
Threatened: Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege
World 21.08.2024
UN urges probe of death threats against Nobel laureate Mukwege
Reports of an alleged brutal gang-rape in a seaside resort have prompted women in cities across Israel to protest against sexual violence
World 21.08.2024
'More Than 30' rapists: Israel's #MeToo campaign
Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak was last month handed a 12-year jail term after being convicted on all seven charges in the first of several trials related to 1MDB
World 21.08.2024
Goldman pays Malaysia $2.5 bn as part of 1MDB deal
The February unrest saw the worst clashes in years between India's majority Hindus and minority Muslims
World 21.08.2024
Amnesty accuses Indian police of 'grave abuses' in Delhi riots
The region near the disputed Paracel Islands has seen heightened tensions recently with both the US and China conducting military operations
World 21.08.2024
US warship sails near disputed islands in tense South China Sea
Aziz seized power in 2008 before being elected twice as president
World 21.08.2024
Mauritania's ex-president says 'victim of score settling'
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