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Doctors say victims from attack on Khan Sheikhun were bleeding from the nose and mouth, had constricted irises and suffered from convulsions
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Rex Tillerson’s enigmatic statement comes after Trump warned US would act alone on Pyongyang provocation if China did not intervene
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around the world
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EuropeEuropeThe many faces of Angela Merkel: 26 years of photographing the German chancellorGermany’s top politician is intensely private, but Herlinde Koelbl has been meeting her once a year for decades - to take her portrait and ask the same three questions. What has the photographer learned about Europe’s longest-serving leader?
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Jonathan Gambo shares his story of recovery after being injured by discarded munitions in Nigeria, and we follow the activists rescuing enslaved brick workers
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International family planning agency, which will lose all future US funding, rejects state department claims it supports ‘coercive abortion’ in China
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opinion & analysis
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The White House was silent before condemning the Obama administration’s ‘weakness’, as Trump struggles to define a policy vision
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Social scientists say we are witnessing a backlash to the loss of male dominance in the workplace, a phenomenon that helped Donald Trump become president
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Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee faces a battle on the floor of the Senate that threatens to stretch the institution’s arcane procedures to the limit
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Repressive policies of Kyrgyzstan and other former-Soviet central Asian republics have led to radicalisation of some Muslims there
pictures and video
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Dozens of people have died and several more injured in a suspected chemical attack in northern Syria
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A passenger on the St Petersburg metro that was targeted by a bomb on Monday describes the moment the impact hit the carriage
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Amateur video shows passengers jumping from the wreckage of a train carriage in St Petersburg after an explosion on the metro on Monday
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Fourteen people have been killed after an explosive device detonated on a metro train in central St Petersburg
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From Russian hacking to WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden and CIA cyber weapons, does digital surveillance mean the end of privacy?
French presidential debate proves a marathon of egalité in action
French elections: all you need to know