world news
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Exclusive: As global demand for chocolate booms, ‘dirty’ beans have entered big business supply chains
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MEPs say Baku tried to ‘influence European decision-makers through illicit means’, as Council of Europe calls for legal action over defiance over ECHR
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Florida governor Rick Scott called on emergency workers to check on residents at nursing homes and assisted living facilities
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UK wrong to play down independence of European Free Trade Association from EU’s jurisdication, says head of Efta court
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Government called for former pharmaceutical CEO’s bail to be revoked after he offered to pay $5,000 for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle
spotlight
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More than 20 years ago unlikely conservative-conservationist meetings were held in a Bonn Italian restaurant, now a ruling coalition seems possible
around the world
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Teaching staff in KwaZulu-Natal province under investigation as mobile phone footage implicating them in savage attacks on students circulates online
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opinion & analysis
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Despite the European commission chief’s ambitions, opposing national interests may mean some policies will remain slogans
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Following North Korea’s most powerful nuclear test to date, we chart the country’s progress in developing a nuclear weapon that can credibly threaten the US
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With the ruling rightwing bloc of parties and the opposition neck and neck, smaller parties may find themselves kingmakers
pictures and video
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Bernie Sanders slammed Republicans as he unveiled legislation that would expand the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly to all Americans
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Sister Margaret Ann uses a chainsaw to help clean-up efforts in Miami after it was hit by Hurricane Irma
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Over 6.4 million people in the south-eastern US were warned to evacuate as Hurricane Irma ripped through communities across Florida. As the residents of Bonita Springs clean up Irma’s devastation, they turn to their faiths and to each other to find a way forward
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Ronald Sandelé, 70, saves a seagull on the side of the road in Key Largo in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma
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Members of the CGT union march through the streets of Paris on Tuesday protesting against President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed loosening of labour laws
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Surveillance video captures the moment a small plane hits a tree and crashes to the ground in a car park in Plainville, Connecticut, on Monday. The pilot escaped the crash with minor injuries
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