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UNHCR says it is now certain that last week the deadliest since April 2015 as rescue teams describe shocking scenes
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Relatives of Mohammad Azam, killed while driving Mullah Mansoor across Pakistan, lodge a first investigation report for murder
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Pontiff tells social media stars they create virtual circles to which followers belong, laying ‘paths of optimism and hope’
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UKUKTwo boatloads of migrants do not an invasion makeRhetoric over weekend arrivals stems more from EU referendum than any transfer of the Mediterranean boat crisis to Britain
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EuropeEuropePrince Philip's DNA may identify the last of the RomanovsHuman remains could now be conclusively identified as belonging to the children of the Russian royal family who were killed with their parents in 1918
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Serbian DJ Tijana T takes us on a tour of her hometown, from its brutalist architecture to provocative theatre and shady redevelopment projects
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To complement our 50-part series on the history of urbanisation, our readers shared fascinating stories of the cities we didn’t cover – from Bergamo to Isfahan
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Scientists say sea temperatures are back to normal, but from southern Africa to southern Asia, droughts and heatwaves have left a trail of devastation
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The social entrepreneurs behind an app designed to help autistic children learn hope their innovation can change attitudes
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Malaysia just established a one million hectare marine park
Johnny LangenheimThe new Tun Mustapha marine park & shark sanctuary in Borneo is the biggest marine protected area in Malaysia -
With his efforts to overhaul healthcare and crack down on Wall Street, the president has demonstrated the benefits of practicality and compromise
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As a budget crisis bites, liberals and some conservatives wonder if rightwing fears over abortion and transgender rights are tipping their state into chaos
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Writer Ben Rhodes is likely to have been a close collaborator but the dominant voice will have been the president himself
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South African firefighters break into song and dance in the arrivals area of Edmonton airport on Sunday, as they arrive to join the battle against the wildfires
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Footage shows collapsed buildings and cars buried under rubble in Braunsbach, following violent storms that caused severe flooding in southern Germany on Monday
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Souleymane Guengeueng, who says he almost died during two years of imprisonment and torture in the 1980s in Chad, explains his hopes that Hissène Habré, Chad’s former dictator, will be found guilty of crimes against humanity
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Cincinnati Zoo’s director Thane Maynard speaks after a special zoo response team shot and killed a 17-year old gorilla that grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit moat on Saturday
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Chinese laundry detergent brand Qiaobi have released a controversial advert that has caused widespread outrage online
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Amateur footage shows a woman being pushed to the ground by a policeman during a protest in Toulouse on Thursday
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A vintage second world war plane taking part in celebrations of its 75th anniversary crashes into the Hudson river between New York and New Jersey on Friday, killing the pilot, police and witnesses said
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