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Modern witch-hunts terrorise New Guinea highlands

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Sudan protests biggest threat yet to Bashir – analysts

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India arrests 750 in flashpoint temple clashes

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Tourists hunker down as Storm Pabuk has Thailand in its sights

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UK universities would take ‘decades’ to recover from no-deal Brexit, leaders warn

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Archaeologists find Mexico temple to god of skinning sacrifices

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Speaker Pelosi takes the gavel as divided US Congress convenes

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Somalia tells UN not to interfere after expelling envoy

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Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash

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Bolsonaro govt launches purge of Brazil’s public service

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DR Congo election panel may delay provisional results

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Death toll jumps to 37 in Russian gas blast

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China lands probe on far side of moon – state TV

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Niger army kills at least 280 Boko Haram militants – ministry

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One dead in Sydney Scientology stabbing

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One dead, 15 injured after women enter flashpoint India temple

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Tourists flee Thai islands as Tropical Storm Pabuk looms

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Trump warns US government shutdown could last ‘long time’

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Fresh clashes in Chad’s gold region kill ‘dozens’: sources

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Zimbabwe president cuts short holiday over doctors’ strike

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Six dead in rail accident on wind-battered Danish bridge

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Report claims fraud in Frenchwoman’s ‘oldest-ever’ world record

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DR Congo curbs French radio station RFI in tension vote

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DRC: State says it cut internet to avoid ‘uprising’ after vote

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Rescuers pull more bodies from rubble of Russian gas explosion

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Indian police fire tear gas at protesters after women enter temple

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Somalia orders top UN envoy to leave

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14 confirmed dead in Russia high-rise blast

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New Brazil President Bolsonaro takes aim at crime, corruption

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‘We have a healthy spacecraft’: NASA succeeds in historic flyby of faraway world

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Rescuers pull baby alive from Russian block after gas blast

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Western powers urge DR Congo to restore Internet

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Zambia’s president fires army chiefs

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PICS: Sydney, Hong Kong kick off 2019 parties with dazzling fireworks

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Tense DR Congo counts vote in presidential poll

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South African among suspected jihadist leaders in Mozambique

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NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

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Trump softens Syria pullout schedule but claims ‘hero’ status

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Sydney kicks off global 2019 parties with dazzling spectacle

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SA arrests Mozambique’s ex-finance minister for extradition to US

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3 dead, 79 missing after gas explosion rocks Russia high-rise

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Lion kills worker at US wildlife park

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Tunisia coastguard rescues 45 migrants

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White House chief admits Trump’s wall isn’t a wall, it’s more like ‘steel slats’

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15 suspects brought before Morocco judge over hiker murders

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Spanish ‘ghost towns’ slowly come to life

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Workers fret at making ends meet as US govt shutdown persists

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Botswana’s new leader and predecessor in fight about Donald Trump

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EU chief tells Britain to ‘get your act together’ on Brexit

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Sudan’s Bashir tells police to rein in force against protesters

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15 suspected jihadists killed in joint French-Niger op

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Philippine storm death toll rises to 22

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Bali’s Agung volcano spews ash in fresh eruption

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N. Korea’s Kim vows more summits with South next year: Seoul

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Iran sees ‘revival’ of imperilled Lake Urmia

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China saddles up with exclusive riding clubs, horse towns

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DR Congo set to vote after troubled odyssey

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Sudan rebel denies using violence against protesters

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Trump blames Democrats for migrant children’s death, amid govt budget impasse

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Bangladesh goes to the polls under tight security

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Hamas denies Mubarak claim it sent militants to Egypt in 2011

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French hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108

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Tourists throng Egypt pyramids after bombing, but future clouded

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Opposition protests over Madagascar vote result

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Yemen rebels begin withdrawal from Hodeida port

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Yemen rebels begin withdrawal from Hodeida port: UN

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Trump says build US-Mexico wall or he’ll seal border

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Indonesian tsunami volcano lost two-thirds of its height

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Egypt kills 40 ‘terrorists’ in crackdown after Giza attack

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The three frontrunners in DR Congo’s elections

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Former Nigerian president Shagari dies aged 93

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Egypt police kill 40 ‘terrorists’ after Giza bus attack: ministry

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George HW Bush secretly sponsored Filipino boy, letters reveal

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6.9-magnitude quake hits Philippines triggering small tsunami