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Spacecraft bound for Mercury faces ‘tricky’ arrival

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US feminist icon Gloria Steinem dies at 92: foundation

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Czech minister’s body exhumed to resolve doubts over 1948 death

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Venice to roll out red carpet for ‘lucky’ Clooney on film festival opening night

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Philippine couple married in hip-deep floodwaters

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Zambia’s Hichilema sworn in for a second term

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Norwegians mourn King Harald as son succeeds to throne

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New flood risks impede Nepal, Tibet rescue

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Dutch court jails man for life over role in Rwanda genocide

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Prince Harry and family arrive back in Britain

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World must rein in autonomous weapons: UN, Red Cross

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‘Wartime situation’: tornado ravages French village

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VW workers in Germany blast management ahead of crunch talks

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Shein grapples with EU backlash, but clients keep coming

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Bangladesh court upholds death sentences over teen burned alive

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US-sanctioned ICC head warns against ‘demise of international rule of law’

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Iran president says time to end war while in position of strength

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Germany reports record 14 000 heat-related deaths this summer

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Huge questions loom over Prince Harry’s shock return to UK

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Indian hotel fire kills nine, including five Bangladeshi nationals

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ICC says US sanctions ‘flagrant attack’ on court independence

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DRC Ebola outbreak ‘far from being under control’ – WHO chief

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Eswatini repatriates two migrants deported from US

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‘Nowhere to run’: Indonesian quake survivors plead for help

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Ebola outbreak now DR Congo’s deadliest ever

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Gas leak at Bangladesh shipbreaking yard kills eight