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VashiDengi, a microfinance institution in Moscow, is one of many lenders that are fueling a credit surge by Russian consumers
World
18.08.2024
Easy credit poses tough challenge for Russian economy
Like canaries in a coal mine, mussels have long been used as 'bio-indicators' of the health of the seas, lakes and rivers they inhabit
World
18.08.2024
Mussels, 'super-filters' that can help beat water pollution
Xi Jinping has emerged as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades
World
18.08.2024
A bad year for Xi clouds Communist China's 70th birthday celebrations
Macron (R) who hosted his Russian counterpart in grand style at the palace of Versailles in 2017, will this time meet Putin at his official holiday residence in Bregancon in southern France
World
18.08.2024
Ukraine peace the prize as Macron hosts Putin
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A restaurant where Uighur students used to meet to eat their traditional cuisine in the Egyptian capital Cairo
World 18.08.2024
'Nightmare' as Egypt aided China to detain Uighurs
The Okjokull glacier in Iceland has melted away due to climate change
World 18.08.2024
Iceland commemorates first glacier lost to climate change
Argentina's Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne, pictured in April 2019, leaves in the middle of a deepening economic crisis
World 18.08.2024
Argentine economy minister resigns amid deepening crisis
More than 100 MPs have written to Johnson to urge him to reconvene parliament and let them sit permanently until October 31 - the date Britain is due to leave the European Union
World 18.08.2024
British MPs press Johnson to recall parliament over Brexit
An explosion at a wedding in Kabul came just as the US and the Taliban are widely expected to sign off on a deal that would see American troops begin to depart Afghanistan
World 18.08.2024
At least 20 wounded, many feared dead in Kabul wedding blast
Diouf died in France following a long illness
World 18.08.2024
Senegalese ex-UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf dies
One London marcher's protest asgainst the Hong Kong police's use of pepper spray against protesters
World 18.08.2024
HK activists, Beijing supporters demonstrate in London
A waiter was shot dead at an eatery in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris, apparently by a client angry at being made to wait for a sandwich
World 18.08.2024
French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich'
A firefighter douses a forest affected by wildfires in Gran Canaria on the Spanish Canary Islands on August 13, 2019
World 18.08.2024
Evacuations as Gran Canaria hit by new blaze
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