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19 Aug
Social activists in São Paulo say the coronavirus pandemic is causing an increase in the number of homeless people in the Brazil's largest city. Before the pandemic, local authorities counted more than...
19 Aug
A university in the US state of North Carolina announced Monday it will switch to entirely virtual classes for its nearly 20,000 students, after dozens tested positive for COVID-19 in the first week back at school...
19 Aug
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday accused the opposition of attempting to seize power in the wake of mass protests against disputed presidential elections. Belarus's security forces brutally...
19 Aug
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation with immediate effect in the early hours of Wednesday morning, a day after rebel soldiers launched a coup. In an address on state television,...
18 Aug
Dozens of indigenous protesters blocked a main highway through the Brazilian Amazon Monday, demanding help against the new coronavirus and an end to illegal mining and deforestation. Wearing traditional feather...
18 Aug
The melting of Greenland's ice cap has gone so far that it is now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice even if global warming were to end today, according to researchers...
18 Aug
A man who stabbed a police officer on Monday evening in Jerusalem's Old City was shot dead by Israeli security forces, police said. The officer, who was 19, was stabbed in the chest but remained conscious,...
18 Aug
The anniversary of the death of Argentina's founding father Jose de San Martin was marked on Monday by various demonstrations against the presidency of Alberto Fernández and the country's prolonged...
18 Aug
UK Border Force officials escort migrants in Dover's port, after picking them up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel. The British authorities have increased navy and air surveillance in the...
18 Aug
On Monday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would be among the first to receive a Russian coronavirus vaccine if it is shown to be effective. Russia's announcement last week that it...

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