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UN 'to respond to NK missile tests'

A man watches a TV news showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch at a railway station in Seoul (28 April 2016)

The UN Security Council is preparing a response after North Korea carried out two further missile tests, both of which failed.

  • 29 April 2016
  • From the section Asia

Syria's Aleppo 'catastrophic' - UN

The situation in Syria's city of Aleppo is catastrophic, the UN says, after attacks on targets including a hospital kill dozens.

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  • 29 April 2016
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Steve Rosenberg: Russia says terrorism is the fault of the West

  • 28 April 2016
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  • 28 April 2016
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Water refugees

Man and animal live together in drought-stricken India shelters

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  • 29 April 2016
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Tales from the rails

Why Indians have to endure crowded trains

  • 29 April 2016
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Explainers

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  • 29 April 2016
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  • 28 April 2016
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Sport

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British cyclist Simon Yates fails an in-competition drugs test - with his team blaming an "administrative error" over an asthma inhaler.

  • 29 April 2016
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Liverpool pain in Spain & relegation preview

  • 29 April 2016
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