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Bolivia foils coup attempt: All you need to know

Posted by June 27, 2024

EXPLAINERPresident Luis Arce asserts authority as Bolivian Army General Juan Jose Zuniga, who was behind the coup d’etat bid, is arrested.Bolivian President L

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Mapping 7,400 cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon

Posted by June 27, 2024

Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah seem to be escalating as Israel’s war on Gaza nears nine months. Since October 8, when Hezbollah lau

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Political deadlock frustrates Bougainville’s aspirations of independence

Posted by June 27, 2024

Nearly five years after the islanders of remote Bougainville voted decisively in a referendum for independence from Papua New Guinea (PNG), local frustrations a

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Boxing: Undisputed heavyweight world champion Usyk vacates IBF belt

Posted by June 26, 2024

The Ukrainian loses the IBF title just weeks after becoming the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Oleksandr Usyk has confirmed he will vacate

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Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK

Posted by June 26, 2024

A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya m

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‘Axis of impunity’: Putin-Kim deal underlines new challenges to world…

Posted by June 26, 2024

Shortly after signing a new comprehensive strategic partnership between their two countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong U

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Kenyan police contingent arrives in Haiti as protests roil Nairobi

Posted by June 25, 2024

Hundreds of officers travelled to Haiti to begin a UN-backed mission to curtail the influence of the country’s gangs.A group of Kenyan police officers have ar

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Is risk of direct conflict between Russia and NATO increasing?

Posted by June 25, 2024

Russia promises to retaliate after several people in Crimea killed in missile attack.Russia has said the United States bears responsibility for a deadly Ukraini

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Pentagon chief calls for urgent diplomacy to avoid Israel-Hezbollah war

Posted by June 25, 2024

In meeting with Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant, US Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin warns against ‘catastrophe’ of wider war.United States Defense Secretary Ll

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In Kenya, tomorrow is here

Posted by June 25, 2024

We are witnessing the latest, and most glorious, stage of a revolution 40 years in the making.Protests have returned to the streets of Kenya’s towns and citie

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Top European court finds Russia guilty of rights violations in…

Posted by June 25, 2024

Ukraine wins its first interstate case against Russia over systematic violations of human rights on its occupied peninsula.The European Court of Human Rights (E

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China’s lunar probe Chang’e-6 returns from far side of the…

Posted by June 25, 2024

China remains the only country to land a probe on the side of the moon that is always facing away from Earth.A Chinese space probe has returned to Earth carryin

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