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USDog missing for a week rescued from South Australia volcanic crater lake cliff
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WorldThe traditional French feasts deemed ‘offensive to Muslims’
Inside a packed market, a crowd of 1,800 belts out the Marseillaise, hunting horns sound and roars erupt as Asterix and Obelix rush past, banging a giant magic potion pot.
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Brussels is weighing a rare waiver that would let Kyiv tap its €90 billion loan for U.S.-made interceptors for the first time.
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The PIMS nurse who saved one newborn recalls the fire, the screams and the 14 babies she could not save.
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WorldSouth Africa deploys rescue crafts and swimmers to save a dog that was swept 650 feet offshore
As his owner attempted to bring him back to land safely, Bean was caught in a rip current, which resulted in him being swept out to sea.
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WorldIs Russia proving better at protecting friends than fighting enemies in West Africa?
Russian forces were brought in to help defeat jihadists but they also defend the military leadership in Niger.
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is speeding into state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday with a sizeable lead in the polls. If the party gets an outright majority, it will mark the first time the far right has won an absolute majority in a state election since World War II.
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WorldBlasts at Bolivian military base kill at least 10, injure dozens
Authorities say seven people are still missing after deadly explosions at a facility storing pyrotechnic material.
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The 2022 peace deal ended the war but left key disputes unresolved, giving the TPLF room to regroup as tensions return.
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Human rights advocates call for diplomatic measures to guarantee flotilla safety and end Israel’s deadly Gaza blockade.
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The EU border agency Frontex is deploying patrol vessels in the English Channel for the first time to help rescue migrants who run into difficulties while attempting to cross from northern France to the United Kingdom. The vessel operating off the French coast is supporting search and rescue operations by French ships and working with a surveillance aircraft that the European Border and Coast Guard Agency has deployed over the Channel since 2021, Frontex said on Friday.
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Weeks before President Javier Milei visits France, scrutiny has grown around an Argentina-run university residence in Paris supposed to promote peaceful coexistence but which activists say instead restricts lodger freedoms and hosts European far-right figures.But campus sources and former house residents, most speaking anonymously for fear of reprisal, say that the one run by Argentina has gone awry since a Milei appointee, fervent Catholic lawyer Santiago Muzio, became its director in 2024.
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Bangladesh's deadliest measles outbreak in decades is nearing the grim milestone of 1,000 child deaths, as a devastating epidemic sweeps through the country and crowded hospital wards fill with struggling babies.- 'Devastating' - The outbreak has exposed gaps in Bangladesh's efforts to protect its youngest.
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WorldEcuador defends US sinking of vessels as joint anti-drug operation
Relatives of detained crew say US forces acted without evidence, claiming the men were fishermen, not smugglers.
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The United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted in favour of replacing the traditional world map with a version that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. A resolution entitled "Correct the Map," introduced by Togo and backed by members of the African Union, was supported by 164 countries, with six abstentions.
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WorldUN votes to adopt new world map reflecting Africa's true size
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted in favour of replacing the traditional world map with a version that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. A resolution entitled "Correct the Map," introduced by Togo and backed by members of the African Union, was supported by 164 countries, with six abstentions.
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WorldBolivia farmers return to streets over diesel price hikes
Several hundred coca farmers and supporters of former Bolivian president Evo Morales demonstrated in the central city of Cochabamba on Friday over the government's doubling of diesel prices, AFP reporters said.The mostly Indigenous demonstrators demanded that Paz rescind a decree doubling the price of diesel for consumers who buy in large quantities, including farmers, from $0.80 to $1.50 per liter.
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Video from Ceuta shows migrants pulling a dolphin calf from the water and striking it with a stick as outraged residents tried to intervene on the beach.
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WorldHe Was a Trusted Physician Who Frequently Made House Calls, Until He Was Convicted as a Prolific Serial Killer
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The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups. Friday’s resolution, which was sponsored by Togo and backed by members of the African Union, was passed with 164 member states voting in favor. The vote encourages governments and institutions around the world to replace the traditional Mercator map, commonly used since the 16th Century, with the Equal Earth projection that advocates and geographers say shows locations more accurately.
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Tunisia faces criticism as prosecutions of journalists continue under President Kais Saied’s rule.
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WorldGerman president calls for unity in democracy ahead of landmark vote
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday called for the country's democracy and rule of law be protected from those "who scorn and trample all over them," ahead of Sunday's state election that can bring the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to power. "Ethnic-based thinking and nationalist isolationism are simply not the answer to the challenges of the 21st century," Steinmeier told a community festival attended by 2,000 volunteers at his secondary residence in Bonn.
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WorldUN votes to ‘reduce size of Britain and US’ in new map
The United Nations has voted to replace the traditional map of the world with one that reduces the size of Britain and the US.
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The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington.It inflated northern regions and compressed equatorial ones, making Europe and North America appear much larger, while shrinking Africa and South America.
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More than 10% of Nepal's energy generation capacity was knocked out by last week's floods.
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Israeli forces bar Israeli and Palestinian activists from delivering food and medicine to homes besieged by settlers.
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Andrew Tate was indicted for the alleged sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old in Romania. Tristan Tate was charged with complicity.
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A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said it was "glad" to have been able to settle a claim brought on behalf of Thomas Burns given his "past service in the armed forces".
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A long-lost Italian portrait looted from a prominent Jewish art dealer during World War II was set to be returned to his heir after an Argentine court on Friday approved a deal under which the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official agreed to give up her claim rather than face trial. The agreement paves the way for the long-sought return of “ Portrait of a Lady ” to Marei von Saher, the sole surviving heir of Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, whose celebrated collection was sold under duress to Nazi officials after Adolf Hitler’s Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940.
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei has stepped up his country’s claim over the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory, shortly after Trump said the U.S. position on the matter was under review.
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A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security services in Kyiv on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, accusing Moscow of aiming directly at the SBU head's personal office."The drone was aimed directly at the office of the head of the security service in that building," he added.
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Israeli attacks against villages and towns in southern Lebanon continue despite truce agreements and diplomacy.
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The Red Cross said on Friday it had facilitated the transfer to Lebanon of four more people detained by Israel, a day after a first person was freed."The International Committee of the Red Cross, at the request of the relevant parties, facilitated the transfer to Lebanon of five individuals released from Israeli detention," the ICRC said in a statement.
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WorldForced displacement in the West Bank could be ‘crime against humanity’, says UN report
Israel’s forced displacement of more than 33,000 Palestinians in the West Bank could amount to a “crime against humanity” and involves “ethnic cleansing”, according to a report published by the UN.
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A Russian explosive drone hit the main headquarters of Ukraine's SBU intelligence service in central Kiev on Friday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to order a retaliatory strike. "The drone was aimed directly at the office of the SBU head in this building," the Ukrainian leader wrote on Telegram in the mid-afternoon.
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The police are conducting an intensive search for a man suspected of carrying out acts of sabotage on the German electricity grid after several incidents this week. The man from Gevelsberg, near Dortmund, claimed responsibility for the incidents in two letters seen by dpa on Friday.
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WorldHaiti seeks renewal of international anti-gang force
Haiti has called for the renewal of the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force and the mobilization of resources needed to combat armed gangs.
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Israeli forces’ demolition of 12 homes in Khirbet al-Tabban leaves villagers determined to stand firm on their land.
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Country music icon Dolly Parton was the rare celebrity whose popularity transcended generations and politics. August also saw the death of actor Hayden Panettiere, a onetime child star who found fame on the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville.” Other noteworthy people who died in August include former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, actor Tim Curry, ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, Canadian TV news anchor Lloyd Robertson and Norwegian King Harald V.
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WorldThis Greek island solved its rubbish problem - by getting rid of its landfill entirely
Most small islands have little choice but to bury their rubbish in a landfill. Tilos in Greece has found another way. Euronews visited the world's first zero-waste island to see how its system works, and whether other places can do the same.
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