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Commuters waited for the few trains departing the Saint-Lazare station in Paris on Monday, on the twelfth day of a strike over pension reforms.
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19.08.2024
French commuters face 12th day of transport strike over pensions
Beirut saw a second night of clashes between demonstrators throwing water bottles and firecrackers and security forces using tear gas and water cannon
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19.08.2024
Lebanese president postpones consultations to select new PM
Critics believe the law is part of leader Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise India's 200 million Muslims
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19.08.2024
India protests rage over 'anti-Muslim' law
China's Premier Li Keqiang, said Beijing would give "unwavering support" to beleaguered Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam
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19.08.2024
China gives Hong Kong leader 'unwavering support'
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is loathed by Beijing but is leading the polls by a wide margin ahead of January's election
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Taiwan YouTuber loses China business over Tsai interview
Maria Ressa (pictured during a visit to Hong Kong in May) and her Rappler news site have been hit with a string of criminal charges, prompting allegations that authorities are targeting her and her team for their work
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Rappler journalist Ressa launches defence in Philippine libel case
Artists from the Ikarus troupe perform at the Wuzhen Theatre Festival. Wuzhen's government promotes the town as an arts centre, which affords directors a sliver more creative leeway than elsewhere
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China dramatists wage 'guerrilla' fight for artistic freedom
Representative Jerry Nadler accused US President Donald Trump of seeking foreign interference in the 2020 election
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Key Democrat says impeachment needed to stop 'a crime in progress'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern leads a minute's silence to remember the volcano victims
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New Zealand observes silence as more volcano dead named
Sunday's tremor cracked schools, toppled homes and injured dozens but largely spared big cities on the island of Mindanao
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Philippines' quake toll hits three amid hunt for survivors
Five more years, but Boris Johnson's first task is to pull Britain out of the European Union
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Britain's Johnson sets off on post-election Brexit mission
US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said Pyongyang's demands were hostile and unnecessary
World 19.08.2024
US envoy: N. Korea comments 'hostile and unnecessary'
Dozens of wild boars have taken up residence in northern Israel's coastal city of Haifa since the city banned culling them
World 19.08.2024
Boorish boars hog highways in Israel's Haifa
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