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Weather tracker: Japanese islands brace for Dujuan to become a typhoon again
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Former UN Deputy Secretary General on the role of the UN in today's biggest conflicts
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch-Brown about the relevance of the U.N.
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How oil, gas losses have shrunk Iran’s GDP by 10 percent during war
The oil and gas sector shrank 26 percent, new official data shows, pointing to the costs of the US-Israel war on Iran.
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Three arrested in South Africa over one of nine women's bodies found
The body of Jabulile Ntimba was the ninth to be found recently in an area east of Johannesburg.
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Seven Ethiopian rebel groups form new alliance
The groups have been active in Ethiopia's most populous regions for years and now say they will work together.
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Merz insists he will stay as German chancellor despite heavy losses in state elections – Europe live
CDU suffered heavy losses in two regional elections, including in home state of former leader Angela Merkel, where it polled just 4.9% Speaking of EU sanctions, Kaja Kallas this morning in her condemnation of the Russian election fixing, also called for penalties against those who had helped stage the vote in occupied Ukraine. She said she had “proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories”. European Parliament members have also deplored the vote held in “the world’s least-free territories” which they said were staged under martial law, “amid coercion, forced passportisation, door-to-door balloting in the presence of armed personnel and credible reports of grave human rights violations.” More widely, the Duma vote had been held in the “most repressive environment” with “criminalisation and elimination of political opposition”, read a
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Mystery object spotted hovering over Tehran
A mysterious object filmed hovering over Tehran has sparked online speculation.