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By AFPMoroccan and Algerian representatives to the United Nations sparred over the fate of Western Sahara on Tuesday, with Algiers calling for the revival of a long-stalled referendum on the fate of the former Spanish colony."We Algerians have chosen...
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By AFPViolent crime is on the rise in the US capital, where a 28-percent uptick in homicides this year has left researchers perplexed and politicians pointing fingers.And while Washington is still a far cry from its days as the "murder capital" of th...
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By AFPIndia has reimposed an internet ban on restive Manipur state after violent protests erupted following the circulation of photographs of two dead students killed during the months-long conflict, officials said.More than 150 people have been kill...
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By AFPUS presidential hopefuls prepared Wednesday for the second 2024 Republican primary debate, with runaway frontrunner Donald Trump once again reducing the event to a sideshow after refusing to take part.A month after he snubbed the first showdown...
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By AFPAzerbaijan said on Wednesday that 192 of its soldiers and one civilian died in its lightning offensive last week against ethnic Armenian separatists in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.The Azerbaijani health ministry said that more than 500 Azerbai...
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By AFPAt least eight people died and two were missing in Mexico after heavy rain turned a mountain stream into a torrent of muddy floodwater that swept away villagers, authorities said Monday.The bodies of some victims were reported to have been foun...
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By AFPStanding in the vast windswept plains of the Kazakh steppe, miner Vladimir Khaniev stoically recalled the explosion that left him permanently disabled."I heard a bang and the blast threw me off my feet and I lost consciousness," he told AFP.Ove...
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By AFPSaudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned an attack on its territory that killed two Bahraini military personnel near the border with war-torn Yemen.Bahrain's military said late Monday that one officer and one enlisted soldier had been killed in what i...
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By AFPThousands more refugees fled Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as officials in the self-proclaimed republic said a fuel depot explosion the previous day had killed 20 people.The Armenian government has warned of possible "ethnic cleansing" by Azerbai...
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By AFPUK interior minister Suella Braverman was on Tuesday to question whether the United Nations Refugee Convention was "fit for our modern age" during a keynote speech at a US think-tank in Washington.The speech at the centre-right American Enterpr...
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By AFPSaudi Arabia, which is in US-brokered talks with Israel to normalise relations, on Tuesday sent a delegation to the occupied West Bank for the first time in three decades.The delegation led by the kingdom's non-resident ambassador to the Palest...
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By AFPArmenia prepared Monday to welcome a new flood of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees while the leaders of Azerbaijan and ally Turkey were set to hold a celebratory summit marking Baku's victory over the rebel enclave.And as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...
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