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It's been criticism of the decision by the United States to withdraw all funding from the UN agency that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees amid fears it could further destabilize the region, a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas described
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A court in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists from the Reuters News Agency to seven years in prison after finding them guilty of violating a state secrecy law. Reuters has condemned the verdict, which has also been criticized by the United Nations
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Thembi Maphanga was doused in petrol and set alight by her partner. I'm confused until he threw the petrol over me. And we fought for the match for a while. Thembi wears her scar as a blemish on the conscience of a country struggling with gender viol
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The South Korean authorities have confirmed that President Moon Jae-in will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang later this month. Mr. Kim met officials from Seoul who've been in North Korea to arrange the talks. Lora Beca is in Seou
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An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for more than seventy in connection with a violent protest at which the security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators five years ago in Cairo. Those condemned included prominent figures in the Muslim
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People are voting in Sweden's general election where an anti-immigration party is vying to win a pivotal role in a country long seen as a bastion of liberal values. The populist Sweden Democrats are on course to win at least 1/5 of the vote and becom
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The Swedish general election has left the two main political blocs almost tied with the anti-immigration party making gains on its previous results. With nearly all ballots counted, the governing center-left coalition is marginally ahead of its centr
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The Charity say the children estimated more than half a million boys and girls under 5 would die of hunger this year in countries plagued by conflict, as feuding parties deliberately block humanitarian aid. The charity says that there were more than
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They fed hundreds of thousands of formulas into computers, but still the stubborn roof would not stand up. Then suddenly in September 1961 Utzon had an idea. He saw that if he started with a sphere, he could take all the shapes he needed from its reg
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The strongest typhoon so far this year is battering the northern Philippines with violent winds and torrential rains. Super typhoon Mangkhut made landfall on the country's main island Luzon early on Saturday, blowing down trees, ripping off roofs and
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin is to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi later today with the Syrian crisis high on the agenda. At talks earlier this month, Turkey failed to get Russia and Iran the Syrian governments main al
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The charity Save the Children says renewed fighting in Yemen has left another 1 million children at risk of famine. Our correspondent Naomi Grimli reports. The battle for the city of Hodeida could have serious knock-on effects in the country where 5.
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People in the Maldives are voting in a presidential election that international observers and opposition groups fear will not be free or fair. Jill McGivering reports. President Abdulla Yameen is promising further economic development with Chinese ca
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At the end of a 2-day summit with the North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, the South Korea president said the Pyongyang is prepared to close its missile launch facility at Tongchang-ri under experts supervision. Moon Jae-in added that Pyongyang was prepar
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It paved the way for the three decades-long rule of President Mobutu. They didn't come any greedier in Africa. It's estimated he stole around half of the 12 billion dollars his country received in aid. The West helped to keep him in power. A people a
