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"Parasite" writers Han Jin-won and Bong Joon-ho (R) have secured a historic Oscars win a year after the 100th anniversary of South Korean cinema in 2019
World
19.08.2024
'Parasite' Oscar success opens new era
A snowball fight amid the palm trees -- young boys enjoy only the second snowfall in a century to carpet Baghdad and central Iraq
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19.08.2024
Ultra-rare snowfall carpets Baghdad
The 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is the legal framework for the presence of US troops on Philippine soil and is central to the two nations' hundreds of annual military exercises
World
19.08.2024
Philippines says to break US military pact
A tank outside Niavaran palace in 1979 with a picture of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the front during the Islamic Revolution which saw the ouster of the shah's last government
World
19.08.2024
Iranians rally on 41st anniversary of shah's ouster
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More than 8,000 people last seen in the custody of the Islamic State group remain unaccounted for in Syria despite the exhumation of mass graves, like this one near the jihadists' former stronghold of Raqa
World 19.08.2024
HRW urges probes into fate of missing IS captives
As "emeritus" Pope Benedict XVI continued in his retirement to write on the great themes of the Church, friction has arisen, creating the appearance of "two popes" at odds
World 19.08.2024
Seven years after stepping down, Benedict fuels 'two popes' headache
Daniel arap Moi, who towered over Kenya between 1978 and 2002, lay in state for three days in parliament, with tens of thousands of people filing past to pay their respects
World 19.08.2024
Kenya mourns Moi with state funeral
Roger Stone, who has a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back, argued that the charges against him were politically motivated
World 19.08.2024
US prosecutors ask for 7-9 years jail for Trump confidant Stone
The novel coronavirus that has killed 1,016 people and infected more than 42,600 across China is believed to have originated in one of Wuhan's markets selling wild animals
World 19.08.2024
China tightens movement restrictions in locked-down Wuhan
Guns are set up in a window display, located near the Terminal 21 shopping mall where a mass shooting took place in the northeastern Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima
World 19.08.2024
Tearful Thai general says 'don't blame army' for soldier's rampage
Many of the 700,000-plus Rohingya who fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017 have tried to leave overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh
World 19.08.2024
14 Rohingya die, dozens unaccounted for as boat sinks off Bangladesh
Thae Yong Ho fled his post as North Korea's deputy ambassador to Britain in August 2016
World 19.08.2024
Former N. Korea diplomat to run in South's elections
The virus, which has since gone on to kill more than 1,000 people across China, is believed to have crossed into humans from an animal market in Wuhan
World 19.08.2024
Eight days in Wuhan, cut off from the world
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