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  • Supporters of Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, who was sentenced to two years in prison, had been hoping for a lenient judgement, if not acquittal

    Algerian journalist Drareni jailed for two years on appeal

  • A local police source told AFP an operation to round up suspects had taken place on Monday on the roadside where thousands of asylum seekers have been sleeping since the camp burned down on September 8.

    Five migrants arrested over Greek camp fire: minister

  • The Moria fire forced its 12,000 former occupants to sleep rough in abandoned buildings, on roadsides and even rooftops

    Germany to take in 1,500 refugees from Greek islands

  • Mongolians in the capital Ulaanbaatar protest against Beijing's plan to introduce Mandarin-only classes at schools in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia

    Chinese foreign minister visit prompts Mongolian protests

  • The head of the Malian military junta, Col. Assimi Goita, centre, arriving in Ghana for the ECOWAS summit

    West Africa leaders press Mali junta over transition

  • fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow after a trip to support opposition candidates in local elections

    Navalny says 'able to breathe' unaided after suspected poisoning

  • Chinese manufacturers have been bullish about development, with companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm even putting their vaccine candidates on display at a trade fair in Beijing this month

    China says Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for public by November

  • Workers building temporary shelters for coronavirus patients on a football pitch in Yangon, where new infections have spiked prompting opposition parties to call for a postponement of elections due in November

    Calls grow for Myanmar election delay as coronavirus cases spike

  • Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tells AFP it is in his country's interest to resume peace negotiations with the Palestinians rather than strike separate deals with pro-Western Gulf states

    Netanyahu will not talk to Palestinians: opposition chief

  • Hundreds of migrants have reluctantly made their way to the new site in the searing heat

    Hundreds of migrants housed in new Lesbos camp after fire

  • Taiwan bird watchers taking photos at the Da'An Forest Park in Taipei. A Taiwan bird protection group has been ejected from a global body because it refused to sign a statement saying it would never advocate for the island's independence

    Taiwan bird group blames political flap for ejection from global network

  • Thousands of Hong Kongers took part in a ceremony to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown despite it being banned by authorities

    Two dozen Hong Kong activists in court over banned Tiananmen vigil

  • Police and prosecutors withholding evidence is behind a large number of false convictions in US courts, according to a new study

    Wrongful convictions: US police withhold evidence in many cases

  • The defendants were found guilty of organising and brokering illegal emigration

    Vietnam jails four people over Britain truck tragedy

  • An aerial view showing some of the fire damage in Brazil's Pantanal

    Desperate race against fires in world's biggest tropical wetlands

  • The US, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain will make history at the White House

    Trump hosts Israel, Bahrain, UAE peace ceremony

  • President Donald Trump has vowed to hit back at Iran if the Islamic republic strikes at the United States

    Trump vows '1,000 times greater' response to any Iran attack

  • Greg Kelly pleaded not guilty as his trial on a single charge of financial misconduct began in Tokyo

    Former Ghosn aide Greg Kelly pleads not guilty as trial opens

  • With hardly any residents to care for them, the plants at Chengdu's Qiyi City Forest Garden have overrun the towers

    Welcome to the jungle: plants overrun Chinese apartment blocks

  • The Philippines-based Asian Development Bank said the pandemic remained a 'potent' threat to the region's economic recovery

    Virus restrictions threaten Asia economic recovery in 2021: ADB

  • Camels run on a dirt track during a race in Egypt's South Sinai desert after a hiatus of more than six months due to the coronavirus outbreak

    Camel racing storms back in Sinai after virus hiatus

  • Watchtowers on a high-security facility near an alleged re-education camp for Muslim ethnic minorities outside Hotan in China's Xinjiang region

    US puts block on Chinese products from Uighur 'forced labor'

  • President Donald Trump's administration has sought the sale of TikTok from ByteDance, citing concerns about US data security

    US government receives Oracle bid for TikTok

  • Congress voted on September 11, 2020 to open impeachment proceedings against Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra over accusations he incited aides to lie to anti-graft investigators

    Facing impeachment, Peru's Vizcarra goes on the offensive

  • Conditions on Venus are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead and an atmosphere comprised almost entirely of carbon dioxide

    Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth

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