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Relatives mourn Palestinian teenager Mohammed al-Haddad, killed by Israeli fire during clashes in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday
World
19.08.2024
Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in West Bank clashes: official media
Tom Ford, chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America which runs New York Fashion Week, is showcasing in Los Angeles instead
World
19.08.2024
What you need to know about New York Fashion Week
Bamako has two drama schools which produce about ten graduates every year. They are often viewed with suspicion
World
19.08.2024
Thespians battle prejudice and poverty in wartime Mali
A French standards body could stop Chablis winemakers from using the Burgundy (Bourgogne) appellation
World
19.08.2024
No Chablis? Burgundy winemakers up in arms over proposed shake-up
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Passengers on the Diamond Princess are bracing for 14 days of quarantine after 20 coronavirus cases were detected on the ship
World 19.08.2024
Captain, bring me whisky: spirited plea from virus cruise 'prisoner'
Photos of empty supermarket shelves prompted the government to condemn those spreading rumours that the city was running out of toilet paper
World 19.08.2024
Viral hysteria: Hong Kong panic buying sparks run on toilet paper
Kayapo tribe members perform a ceremony as dozens of Amazon indigenous leaders gathered in January in the heart of the Brazil's rainforest in solidarity against Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policies
World 19.08.2024
Brazil's Bolsonaro proposes bill opening indigenous land to mining
Switzerland is holding a referendum on a law that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation
World 19.08.2024
Switzerland divided over new law against homophobia
NASA astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth after 328 days living and working aboard the International Space Station
World 19.08.2024
Record-breaking US astronaut set to return to Earth
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar won plaudits for helping to secure a last-minute divorce deal between Britain and the EU
World 19.08.2024
Brexit, homelessness dominate in Irish election
In the film the two recall details of their postings from Leopoldville, as Kinshasa was once known, to the Middle East and to Burma
World 19.08.2024
Surviving WWII Congo troops honoured for colonial-era battles
UN Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame has mediated in talks held in Geneva, where he said representatives of the warring parties had agreed on the principle of turning their shaky truce into a lasting ceasefire
World 19.08.2024
Libya a 'den of mercenaries', say war-weary citizens
Kirk Douglas, pictured in Marbella, Spain, in 1970
World 19.08.2024
Kirk Douglas, from ragman's son to Hollywood icon
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