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At least 50 UK youngsters are growing up in the Isis ‘caliphate’, where education means watching videos of murders
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Need to maintain truce in war-torn country reaffirmed by European leaders as Merkel highlights Russia’s continued commitment
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Prominent group of academics, teachers and others write to ruling coalition saying they are ‘deeply embarrassed’ by its role in unilateral border closures
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In loyalist areas there is a sense that things are going well, but in the battered north-west there are doubts that the partial ceasefire will hold for long
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UKUKLocal resident describes aftermath of fire engine incident in Northern Ireland – videoLocal resident Thomas Jobling describes the moment after he was woken up in the early hours of Saturday morning, after a fire engine was driven into a number of cars and houses in the Larne area
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EuropeEuropeOpen letter to the government in Vienna from Austrian expatriates in GreeceThis is the full text of a letter written by prominent émigrés to ministers in protest over the country’s role in border closures against refugees
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The 2006 winter Olympics was a symbol of Turin’s regeneration – but since then, many buildings have been left to crumble. Now migrants and refugees occupy the deserted athletes’ village, turning it into a ‘symbol of their protests’
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After suffering its worst floods for a century, the Indian city of Chennai is consulting cities all over the world – from New Orleans to Jakarta – about the ambitious projects that could reduce their risk of flood devastation
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Suite aux dernières élections présidentielles et législatives qui ont donné lieu à des allégations de fraudes provoquant de violentes manifestations, Haïti, l’un des pays les plus pauvres du monde, traverse une vive crise politique
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Haitians are slowly rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake, hoping to lure investors and tourists, and strengthen the economy
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Just 660 of 160,000 Europe agreed to share have been relocated as continent buckles under logistical and political weight of the crisis
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A review by the Guardian shows that nearly every person in the governor’s inner circle was aware of alarming concerns about the city’s toxic water supply
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The debate could have been conservatives’ last opportunity to examine each candidate’s policies – instead, the focus was on the size of Trump’s penis
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A backlash against refugees has led to growing support for the far right and the need to send a strong signal of disapproval
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The impounding of a North Korean vessel by the Philippines on Friday, follows strict new United Nations sanctions, says coastguard spokesman commander Armand Balilo
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Former pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson has announced that he is officially suspending his campaign for president
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Guo Li-Ming, neurology professor at John Hopkins Institute for cell engineering discusses how scientists have found a potential link between the Zika virus and microcephaly
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United Nations high commission for refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Babar Baloch says that refugees need to be moved to an appropriate location, in order to avoid a humanitarian crisis
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The Australian artist travelled to Lebanon, Turkey, Greece and Serbia, drawing the people he met in refugee camps
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The Booker prize-winning author visits refugee camps in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon as a guest of World Vision, accompanied by the artist Ben Quilty
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LAPD captain Andrew Neiman spoke to the press on Friday to confirm reports that a knife, which is alleged to have been found on the property of former football player OJ Simpson, is currently being examined by forensic officers
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China to build second railway line into Tibet