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Covid: 168m children worldwide have missed school for a year, says UNICEF

Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost an entire year due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new data released on Wednesday by UNICEF.

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Six dead as Myanmar security forces fire at protesters

At least six people were killed as Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy protesters Wednesday, after the junta hit half a dozen detained journalists, including an Associated Press photographer, with

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At least 10 people killed South Sudan plane crash

At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor and the airline said. The airline

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Russia says new Western sanctions ‘absolutely unacceptable’

The Kremlin said Wednesday Western sanctions on Russia were “absolutely unacceptable” and dismissed as “outrageous” claims that the country’s security agency was behind the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

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US concludes Russia poisoned Navalny, joins EU in sanctions

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on senior Russian officials in a coordinated action with the European Union as US intelligence concluded that Moscow orchestrated the near fatal poisoning

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Defying deadly crackdown, crowds again protest Myanmar coup

Police in Myanmar’s biggest city fired tear gas Monday at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup, despite reports that security forces had killed at

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Covid-19 variants pose ‘real threat’ to vaccine progress, CDC warns

The spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants is threatening to fuel a “potential fourth surge of cases” in the US, a top health official has warned. The head of the

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All 279 kidnapped Nigerian students released: governor

All 279 Nigerian students kidnapped from their boarding school in the northern state of Zamfara have been released and are on government premises, the governor of the state told AFP

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Italy summons Myanmar envoy over protest crackdown

Italy’s foreign ministry said Monday it had summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to demand an end to the deadly crackdown on protests in the Southeast Asian nation. Ambassador Hmway Hmway Khyne “was

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Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication

Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon on the Saudis who were responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, it was taken down without

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