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Drug business booming in Myanmar

Opium poppy production in Myanmar ramped up dramatically following the 2021 military coup, the UN's drugs office said Thursday, as political and economic turmoil drove farmers to cultivate the crop...

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Cyclone Cheneso hits Madagascar

Several districts of Mahajanga, in the north-west of Madagascar, have flooded as well as the roads that connect them to the capital, Antananarivo. Cyclone Cheneso continues to hit the island with m...

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Djokovic's dad to skip Australian Open finals

Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan said on Friday he would not attend his son's Australian Open semi-final and would instead "watch from home", after a video emerged showing him posing at Melbourne Par...

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'Traumatic memories': Survivors mark Auschwitz anniversary

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering Friday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in the final months of World War II, amid the horror of war ...

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U.S bracing for release of Memphis arrest footage

In another horrifying example of police brutality in the US, five since-fired police officers have been arrested and charged in the death of Tyre Nichols. Prosecutors says he died on the January 10...

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Odesa granted World Heritage in Danger status

The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said on Wednesday that it had designated the historic centre of Odesa, a strategic port city on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a World Heritage in Danger site....

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More than 800kgs of cocaine seized off Senegal

More than 800kgs of cocaine were seized by the Senegalese navy off the coast of Dakar this week. Over the last few years, The number of similar seizures across the region seems to be on the rise, w...

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India's Modi attempts to block BBC documentary

University students in India’s southern state of Kerala burned an effigy of Narendra Modi in response to the banning of a BBC documentary critical of the prime minister. “India: The Modi Question” ...

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Chinese city hits coldest temperatures on record

Frigid winter weather gripped East Asia for the second straight day on Wednesday, causing several deaths and multiple injuries in Japan and a scramble for flights out of South Korea's resort island...

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Rwanda fires on Congo fighter jet

Video has captured the moment forces in Rwanda fired upon a Congolese military aircraft it alleges violated its airspace. It marks a fresh escalation in tensions between the neighbors that has set ...

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Peru protesters tear-gassed hours after 'truce'

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Peru's capital and were met with volleys of tear gas and pellets amid clashes with security forces just hours after President Dina Boluarte called for...

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'We will hold our ground': Life in the trenches with a Ukrainian unit

A Ukrainian unit stands guard in a trench near Krasnohorivka, in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Oleksandr, one of its members, 26, explains that there is "electricity", "heating", as well as "tea" and "...

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France repatriates women, children from jihadist camp

France repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday, the third such large-scale repatriation operation carried ...

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Finland considers NATO membership without Sweden

Finland has admitted it may have to proceed with its application for NATO membership without Sweden, given Turkey’s current anger at Stockholm following the burning of a Koran outside its embassy t...

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South Africa backs 'ally' Russia on Ukraine aggression

South Africa's foreign minister on Monday deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying that hosting such exercises with "friends" was the "natural course of re...

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Lab-grown meat approved for human use

A company in the US is hoping its lab-grown meat products could soon end up in restaurants and on grocery store shelves after the US Food and Drug Administration said that chicken breast grown by t...

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London rules out return of Parthenon Marbles

Greece insisted that the debate on the possible return of the Parthenon Marbles from Britain was "not closed" despite London appearing to rule it out.

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Biden, Trump facing 'very different' scandals

The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday and located six additional documents containing classification markings and also took possession of some of his notes, ...

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Burkina Faso asks France to withdraw troops

The Burkina Faso government clarified on Monday that it has asked France to pull its troops out of the insurgency-hit country within a month. France has around 400 special forces soldiers stationed...

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Activists pushing for a total ban after Roe vs Wade

Anti-abortion activists are holding their annual 'March for life' rally this Friday, January 20. It is the first such march since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which guaranteed access to...

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Chinese turn to traditional remedies to fight COVID-19

As Covid-19 rips through China's population, making millions sick and fuelling a drug shortage, many are turning to traditional medicines to battle the aches and pains brought by the virus. Encompa...

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What's behind the rise in seal attacks

Attacks on humans by seals are becoming increasingly common during peak tourist season in Cape Town, South Africa, with climate change blamed by some for the animals' aggressive behaviour.

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Rock legend David Crosby dies, 81

David Crosby, one of the most influential rock musicians of the 1960s and '70s and who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with two different groups, has died at the age of 81.

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Probe to look for life on Jupiter's moons

The European Space Agency has unveiled its latest probe, JUICE, which is set to explore Jupiter and three of its moons, where it will examine potential habitable zones under their icy crusts and, p...

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Wagner Group accused of recruiting Serbs to fight in Ukraine

Serbia and Pro-Ukraine activists have filed criminal complaints against Russia's Wagner paramilitary group and its supporters, accusing it of recruiting Serbs to fight for Russia in Ukraine. The gr...

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Visiting the 'zero line' in the contested Donbas

On the battlefield in Ukraine, the area closest to enemy territory is known as the "Zero line". A team of reporters gained rare access to follow a group of Ukrainian soldiers stationed along that "...

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J&J to discontinue 'ineffective' HIV vaccine trial

Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it was pulling the plug on a late-stage global trial of an HIV vaccine after the shot was found ineffective at preventing infections. The trial's failure ma...

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One of Zelensky's closest allies killed in crash

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, who died in a shock helicopter crash outside Kyiv Wednesday, was a deeply respected politician with a readiness to venture near frontlines. The 42-yea...

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France comes to a standstill amid strikes

Most trains will be cancelled in France on Thursday, with flights also affected and Paris' subway heavily disrupted, as part of a nationwide strike against the government's plan to make people work...

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Belarus begins trial in absentia of Opposition leader

The trial in absentia of Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya began in Minsk on Tuesday -- part of a crackdown by strongman president Alexander Lukashenko on critics who challenged his ...

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