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Overfished: In Senegal, empty nets lead to hunger and violence

The crisis is now forcing West African countries along the Atlantic to fight one another over the fish that remain.

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Russian Journalist And Kremlin Critic Who Fled To Ukraine Shot Dead In Kiev

Prominent Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, a critic of Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria, has been shot and killed in Kiev, Ukraine officials said late Tuesday.

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Russian Journalist And Kremlin Critic Who Fled To Ukraine Shot Dead In Kiev

Police in Kyiv say Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist who fled to Ukraine after what he called “political harassment” in Russia, has been shot dead at his home by an unknown assailant.

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Erdogan supporters force removal of controversial magazine cover from French newsstand

Supporters of Erdogan near Avignon force an employee from a French billboard company to take down a contentious magazine cover featuring the Turkish president

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France offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled a Paris apartment to save a boy

France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.

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Antarctica is about to have its first ever Pride

There’s queer representation—even at the end of the earth.

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The moment Ireland learned that 66. 4% voted to repeal the country's abortion ban

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Pope scolds FIFA for slave labor in Qatar

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Labour laws in 104 countries reserve some jobs for men only

In Kazakhstan women cannot bleed or stun cattle, pigs or small ruminants; in Vietnam they cannot drive tractors of 50 horsepower or more

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Suspected Islamists behead 10 in Mozambique village

Ten people, including children, were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique in a weekend attack blamed on suspected Islamists, local sources said on Tuesday.

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Afghanistan: Kabul's first library on wheels

The converted public bus offers pupils and street kids free access to books

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Ramadan in Iceland: the Muslims who fast 22 hours a day

The long days in Iceland mean that Muslims there have one of the longest Ramadan fasts in the world.

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Irish abortion referendum: the expats travelling home to vote

Voters are returning home from across the world to cast their ballot in Friday's historic referendum.

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Brazil: refugees fleeing war-torn Congo are finding new danger in the slums of Rio

Hundreds of Congolese refugees seeking asylum in Rio de Janeiro face the violent reality of life in the city's favelas.

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Austria: refugees are jamming with students who have been teaching music to the newcomers

Classes at the city's music schools allow refugees to learn an instrument and gain teaching credits.

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Why Beijing isn't Marxist enough for China's radical millennials

President Xi Jinping may have called for a recommitment to Karl Marx’s ideology, but excuse some young Marxists if they are a little sceptical.

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Japan: women see turning point on sexual harassment after scandal

Japanese women, long accustomed to enduring sexual harassment in silence, are speaking out after a high-profile scandal involving a top bureaucrat stirred debate and protests.

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Kenya: health providers call Trump's global gag rule a 'death sentence' for women

President Donald Trump cut US funding to any international organization that administers or even discusses abortion with its patients. A Kenyan health group is traveling across the US to tell Americans how that rule affects the country. #womensl

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China: employees forced to dance in their underwear for displaying ‘bad attitudes'

As punishment for their poor customer service, four male employees at a real estate office in Nantong, Jiangsu province were forced to strip down to their undies and dance on the street. Video of t…

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Syrian Kurds announce capture of French jihadist known for Nice attack claim

Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Thursday announced the capture of French jihadist Adrien Guihal, known as the voice that claimed 2016 attacks in France for the Islamic State group.

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Pakistan: mob demolishes historic Ahmadi minority mosque

A mosque from the Muslim Ahmadi sect in Pakistan has been torn down,...

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Missile that took down Malaysia Air flight belonged to Russian brigade

This is the most specific information investigators have released to date on Russia's involvement

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France: pouring rain and flash flooding in Paris turns subway stairs into a waterfall

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Quebec journalists denounce right-wing group for storming Vice Quebec newsroom

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Recruiters order Sri Lankan women to take birth control before working in Gulf

Agencies offer guarantee that women desperate to support families devastated by conflict will not fall pregnant

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Peruvian police destroy 31 clandestine air strips used by drug-traffickers

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Indonesia: dogs and cats blowtorched alive and bludgeoned to death in street markets

Dogs and cats are being blowtorched alive and repeatedly bludgeoned over the head with bats in squalid street markets in Indonesia to supply market stalls, slaughterhouses and restaurants, an investigation has found. 

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American suffers mysterious brain injury in China similar to ‘sonic attack' in Cuba

The U.S. State Department issued a health warning this morning to U.S. citizens in China after an American government worker was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury. The unnamed worker reported “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensati

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At least 2,000 Bangladeshi maids have returned home this year having faced sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia

Bangladeshi women return home to report sexual and physical torture at hands of employers in Saudi Arabia, says NGO

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The young Americans trying to stop Ireland from voting Yes to abortion

American anti-abortion groups are hoping to sway Ireland's abortion referendum, leaving some Irish fearful that foreign influence is disrupting their political process.

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Manchester held a mass singalong to remember the victims of the Ariana Grande concert attack one year on.

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France: police car chased by dozens of youth on motorcycles in Marseille

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Kenya: consent classes reduced rape by 50%

Young boys are being taught about a wide variety of subjects in these ‘consent classes’ as they are called in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Harassment and threats: what it's like to be an abortion-rights activist in Ireland

Ahead of the abortion referendum later this week.

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Zimbabwe: women tribal chiefs are breaking free of traditional rules

In many parts of rural Zimbabwe, the idea of a woman leading men is strictly taboo. But some women tribal chiefs are breaking free of traditional rules and encouraging others to take decision-making roles and become economically independent.

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Madrid gets a map that lets women warn others of harassment hot-spots

Initiative enables female users to flag up places where they felt threatened in bid to make city safer

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Nine pollution protesters killed in India after police open fire

Nine people have been killed in southern India after police opened fire on protesters who have been calling for the closure of a copper smelter 

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Heatwave kills at least 65 in Pakistan

Hotter than average temperatures have killed at least 65 people in just three days in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Turkey coup trial: court to jail 104 ex-military for life

The president had said he backed reintroducing the death penalty for plotters of the 2016 coup.

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Squatters raise alarm about Berlin housing crisis

Almost three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city is grappling with a growing housing shortage

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Saudi Arabia: detained women's rights activists could face death penalty

Charges of treason and conspiracy against the state could lead to capital punishment, legal experts warn

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China: activist sentenced to five years in jail for promoting Tibetan language

The Chinese authorities’ baseless prosecution of a Tibetan language rights activist demonstrates the government’s contempt for the rights of minority peoples.

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Burundi Just Voted To Allow Its President To Serve Until 2034

Human rights groups worry that the other changes to Burundi's constitution could deepen ethnic tensions and fuel more civil unrest.

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British Muslim Group Denounces anti-Semitism in Full Page Newspaper Ad

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Swedes told to prepare for conflict in Cold War-style booklet

Sweden will send out instructions to its citizens next week on how to cope with an outbreak of war, as the country faces an assertive Russia across the Baltic Sea.

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Russian Agency Offers Fake Restaurant Reviews Ahead of World Cup

A Russian marketing company is offering to post fake reviews for restaurants in World Cup host cities to bump up their ratings and attract foreign fans.

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China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11 million flights and 4 million train trips

Anthony Kwan/Getty ImagesThe social credit system in China has blocked people from taking more than 11 million flights and 4 million train trips.The social

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Pope Francis tells gay man: 'God made you like this'

Juan Carlos Cruz, who was sexually abused, says pontiff told him God did not mind that he was gay

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Almost 200 reporters in Italy are under police protection for writing about the mafia

Paolo Borrometi is among scores of Italian journalists under police protection after their reporting angered crime figures. “That doesn’t happen in other countries,” says a press freedom advocate.

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Saudi activists 'detained' ahead of lifting of driving ban

Prominent women's rights activists are held weeks before kingdom is set to lift female driving ban.

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