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Wildlife authorities are investigating how the emaciated 70-year-old elephant was forced to take part in a parade
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18.08.2024
Sri Lanka probes elephant cruelty at Buddhist parade
Tens of thousands of extra troops have been deployed in Kashmir -- joining 500,000 already there -- turning parts of Srinagar into a fortress of roadblocks and barbed wire
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18.08.2024
India says some Kashmir restrictions eased
The fire broke out on Tuesday and has destroyed over 1,000 hectares of dense pine forest, according to state agency ANA
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18.08.2024
Greek fire crews make progress on island blaze
Nigerian Shiite cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky had been in custody in Nigeria since his arrest in December 2015
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18.08.2024
Detained Nigerian cleric leaves Indian hospital
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Millions of pro-democracy protesters have taken to the streets over the past 10 weeks
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Hong Kong protesters face crucial weekend test after airport setback
Hong Kong's protesters have been gearing up with increasingly protective levels of equipment as clashes become more violent
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Gas masks and hard hats at Hong Kong's protest pop-up store
Skipper, right, and his male partner Ping, left, have begun taking care of a real egg at their enclosure in Berlin Zoo
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Gay penguins adopt egg after trying to hatch stone
Greenland doesn't quite live up to its lush name -- 85 percent of the island is covered by a 1.9-mile-thick (three-kilometer) ice sheet that contains 10 percent of the world's fresh water -- but which has seen unprecedented levels of melting
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Ex-real estate developer Trump wants US to buy Greenland: report
Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of Jakarta have already started to disappear
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Sinking city: Indonesia's capital on brink of disaster
Former Hungarian prime minister Miklos Nemeth says the border fence between Austria and Hungary was an anachronism
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'Nobody thought it would go so fast': Hungary ex-PM recalls fall of Iron Curtain
The world watched in horror 30 years ago as tanks moved in on student protesters occupying Beijing's Tiananmen Square
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China media says Hong Kong response 'won't repeat' Tiananmen
Giraffe numbers across the continent fell 40 percent between 1985 and 2015, to just under 100,000 animals
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Gentle giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'
A pedestrian in Tokyo watches a television report on the latest North Korean launch
World 18.08.2024
North Korea fires two 'unidentified projectiles': Seoul 
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