world news
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PM says Hungary facing ‘a rebellion by illegal migrants’ as officers filmed throwing sandwiches towards desperate crowds at centre in Röszke
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As neighbouring nations struggle to cope with scale of crisis, agencies report that Syrian refugees stranded in exile may go back to war-ravaged homeland
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More girls in schools, fewer mothers dying in childbirth: the UN reports progress in female rights, but the pay gap, forced marriage and domestic violence persist
around the world
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UKUKTwo men jailed over killing of PC Neil DoyleAndrew Taylor sentenced to seven years and six months and Timmy Donovan to six years and 10 months after Doyle was killed on a Christmas night out
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EuropeEuropeMan arrested over murders of former British Olympian and wife in SpainPolice detain suspect more than five months after bodies of Peter and Jean Tarsey are found in villa near Benidorm
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City links Tree-hugging children, subversive skateboarders and legally minded housing activists all feature in this week’s pick of the web’s urban stories
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Utterly flattened by US bombing during the Korean war, Pyongyang was rebuilt from scratch from 1953 onwards. Although many of the early structures borrow heavily from Stalinist neo-classicism, they also have a distinctly Korean air. The result is a highly theatrical city, where every vista is carefully framed
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International Refugee Rights Initiative claims Israel has failed to live up to its promises to monitor and support Eritreans and Sudanese in their new countries
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We must break down the barriers between development and humanitarian response, to put in place long-term efforts to end poverty and hunger
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opinion & analysis
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Half of the 380,000 crossing the Mediterranean are from Syria, but refugees from other countries are also tackling tortuous routes to flee conflict
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Republican frontrunner Donald Trump eclipsed Ted Cruz, once the populist movement’s poster boy, despite his tenuous ideological ties with the group
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Lawyers for the Kentucky clerk have claimed the 10 licenses issued during her time in jail – seven of which were for same-sex couples – are invalid, leaving the matter far from settled. But does she have a legal leg to stand on?
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With Otto Pérez Molina having resigned and awaiting trial, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala has proven instrumental to dismantling organised crime
pictures and video
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Benedict Cumberbatch introduces Help is Coming, a Crowded House song being re-released with Save the Children to raise money for refugees
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The aftermath of flooding in Japan that has swept houses off their foundations as rivers burst their banks
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Refugee families are forced to scramble for their food at Hungary’s main refugee camp on the border with Serbia
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Mohammed al-Nasser talks to Phoebe Greenwood about the challenge of making a life without his family in a strange country
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The Palestinian flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the UN general assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the resolution
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Military footage shows US-led coalition airstrikes destroying an Islamic State operating base in a stadium near Ramadi in central Iraq
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The father of Alison Parker, Andy Parker, said he will do whatever it takes to see stricter gun control introduced
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More than 20 missing in Joso, north of Tokyo, after days of torrential rain