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Ivory Coast heads into elections after political turmoil

Ivory Coast was set to vote in a parliamentary ballot on Saturday in a key test of stability after presidential elections last year marked by...
on 6 March 2021 at 3h49 GMT
World

China’s Xi calls for ‘popularizing’ Mandarin in Inner Mongolia

Authorities in Inner Mongolia must "solve ethnic problems" and push the use of the Mandarin language, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said,...
on 6 March 2021 at 3h24 GMT
Politics

Peru’s victims of ‘forced sterilizations’ hope for Fujimori apology

The start of court proceedings against Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori for a program blamed for forcibly sterilizing thousands of poor,...
on 6 March 2021 at 2h56 GMT
World

Flamingos poisoned by illegal lead pellets in Greek lagoon

On a country road that the locals have dubbed 'Flamingo Street' Stavros Kalpakis walks alongside the tall reeds of Agios Mamas, a small northern...
on 6 March 2021 at 2h50 GMT
Health

Gaza girl dons 3D-printed mask to heal burnt face

The moment Maram al-Amawi gets back from school, she slips on the 3D-printed mask that covers her face and treats her severe burns from a blaze...
on 6 March 2021 at 2h29 GMT
World

Near Abraham’s Iraq birthplace, lone Christians put hope in Pope

As Pope Francis prays for Iraq's minorities Saturday from the birthplace of the common patriarch of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths,...
on 6 March 2021 at 1h57 GMT
World

Pope Francis to meet top cleric Sistani on second day in Iraq

Pope Francis begins the second day of his historic Iraq visit on Saturday with an extraordinary meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the...
on 6 March 2021 at 1h55 GMT
World

Syria Kurds hand 12 children to their Iraqi Yazidi mothers

Syria's Kurds have handed back 12 children of alleged Islamic State members to their mothers from Iraq's Yazidi minority, a Kurdish official...
on 6 March 2021 at 0h53 GMT
World

Ecuador’s interior minister quits after prison riots

Ecuador's interior minister resigned Friday in the wake of simultaneous riots in four prisons that left 79 people dead.
on 6 March 2021 at 0h16 GMT