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Burkina Faso junta chief sworn in as president

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Swimmer’s remains found after Sydney shark attack

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Iran calls for US ‘political statement’ on nuclear deal

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Kuwait overturns law criminalising ‘imitation of opposite sex’

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UK annual inflation hits fresh 30-year high

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Russia’s Crimea military drills officially over, confirms defence ministry

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‘Now or never’: Victims of Italy’s predator priests urge inquiry

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Week-long fuel scarcity hits oil-rich Nigeria

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Macron expected to announce Mali withdrawal

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Hunger crisis threatens half of Somalia’s young children – UN

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UK to hold Afghan fundraising summit with UN

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Queen Elizabeth back at work after Covid scare

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Russia pulls back some forces from Ukraine border

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Accountants drop Trump, say records can’t be relied upon

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Germany Chancellor heads to Ukraine to calm ‘critical’ Russia war threat

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Ukraine vows to keep airspace open, travellers safe despite Russia invasion threat

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Hundreds protest in UK over rising cost of living

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Morocco ‘sex for grades’ lecturer jailed for year

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Biden, Putin discuss Ukraine as Kremlin slams ‘provocations’

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Police fire tear gas, fine Paris protest convoy

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‘Unite and fight’: Ukrainians march in face of Russia threat

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Valentine’s Day: flowers, chocolates or a good whipping?

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Russian navy launches major Black Sea drills

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Pandemic’s ‘acute phase’ could end by midyear – WHO

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Masks in class: How damaging to child development?

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Pollution clean-up aims to create Gaza’s first nature reserve

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Coca-Cola says 25% of packaging will be reusable by 2030

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One death from Lassa fever in Britain

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Biden warns American citizens in Ukraine to ‘leave now’

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Russia launches Belarus military drills as West fears Ukraine invasion

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New Zealand police clash with anti-vaxxers at parliament

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Indonesian croc freed after five years trapped in tyre

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Madagascar cyclone toll rises to 92 amid calls for aid

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‘Don’t say gay:’ Sex education fuels US culture wars

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UN court orders Uganda to pay DR Congo $325m war damages

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Ex-pope Benedict XVI asks for forgiveness over sex abuse scandal

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Mozambique to plant 100 million trees on battered coast

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US seizes $3.6bn of stolen bitcoin in record haul

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Mexico bans bureaucrats from kissing, hugging at work

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At least 11 dead in Colombia mudslide

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Viral video of man with wife’s severed head shakes Iranians

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49 convicted in India over deadly 2008 bomb attacks

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Humanitarian crisis feared as cyclone kills 21 in Madagascar

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Trump took Kim ‘love letters,’ govt records from W.House – Archives

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Livelihoods lost as climate disaster woes mount in Kenya

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Air pollution costs Mideast, North Africa annual $141bn – World Bank

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Dubai to charge for single-use plastic bags

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‘Out of control’ Ottawa trucker protest prompts state of emergency

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Africa must stand together to fight global warming, Ramaphosa tells AU summit

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African Union condemns coups, suspends debate on Israel’s status

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Malawi court to deliver ruling on Bushiri extradition on Tuesday

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Morocco in shock after tragic death of ‘little Rayan’

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US says Russia preparing full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Cyclone Batsirai nears Madagascar, ‘widespread damage’ feared

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi back in court after health no-show

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Man charged after spy cameras found in women’s bathrooms at Australian embassy in Bangkok

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US panel recommends release of mentally ill Guantanamo detainee

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Scraping a living: salt offers women lifeline in Yemen

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Iceland to end whaling as demand dwindles

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Death toll from laced cocaine in Argentina climbs to 23

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Covid-19 pandemic begins to ebb

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Russia wins Chinese backing in showdown over Ukraine

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Death of IS chief: what we know

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Morocco rescuers close in on boy trapped for days in well

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New ‘highly virulent’ HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands

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Meet two women who uncovered clergy sex abuse in Colombia

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Race on to find laced cocaine that killed 20 in Argentina

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Nigerian oil vessel with 10 people aboard catches fire

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Mozambicans cautiously return to once-terrorised Palma town

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‘Enough is enough’: Biden urges end to US gun violence

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IS chief blows himself up during US raid in Syria

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German cardinal urges lifting celibacy rule for priests

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High-voltage cable electrocutes 26 at market in DR Congo capital

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More than 50 killed in DR Congo machete attack

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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits January record