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Ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir who appeared in court Monday for the start of his trial on corruption charges is seen in this June 2019 picture being escorted from the Kober prison to the prosecutor's office in North Khartoum
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18.08.2024
Sudan's Bashir in court for graft trial: AFP
Police violently dispersed protesters in Harare who defied a ban on demonstrations on Friday. 
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18.08.2024
Zimbabwe deploys security forces to prevent banned march
Shenzhen has grown from a sleepy fishing village into an economic powerhouse
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18.08.2024
China plans to make Shenzhen a 'better place' than Hong Kong
Protesters in Manokwari, Papua, have set fire to shops and vehicles, knocked down street signs, and thrown rocks at government buildings
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18.08.2024
Thousands riot in Papua, parliament building torched
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Salah, Khalil and Ibrahim, aged between 19-22, sat in a corner of the Ocean Viking vessel operated by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders as it waited for permission to dock at a port
World 18.08.2024
Young Libyans chose danger at sea over peril at home
Prince Andrew said he was 'appalled' by allegations of sexual abuse surrounding Jeffrey Epstein after a video was released purporting to show him at the home of the convicted paedophile in 2010
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Britain's Prince Andrew 'appalled' by Epstein abuse claims: report
A rally by pro-government supporters in Hong Kong this weekend illustrated the polarisation coursing through the city
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Chinese state media pump up the jam to slam Hong Kong protests
A hard-hitting report from a top Australian think tank has warned that the United States no longer has military primacy in the Pacific
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US power waning in Pacific, warns top Australian think tank
The commemoration will be a rare encounter between the two of the great survivors of European politics, with Merkel in office since 2005 and Orban since 2010
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Merkel, Orban to mark Iron Curtain anniversary amid new divides
Hong Kong has meanwhile been rocked by more than two months of protests and on Sunday saw a crowd that organizers said numbered some 1.7 million people march peacefully in the city
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'Tiananmen Square' crackdown in Hong Kong would harm trade deal: Trump
Gibraltar seized the Grace 1 on suspicion it was transporting oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions
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Iran tanker departs after Gibraltar rejects US demand
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, whose fall was the most prominent result of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault
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Victim-blamers have empathy, but it's mostly for perpetrators
US President Donald Trump told reporters that buying Greenland was "something we talked about" but that it was not his administration's top priority
World 18.08.2024
Trump confirms interest in buying Greenland
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