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- STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reuters
Relatives of the 298 victims of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 on Monday accused Russia of lying about its alleged role in the downing of the plane as they began testifying in the Dutch murder trial of four suspects.
International investigators concluded that the passenger
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Maiduguri, Nigeria
Reuters
Mobile telephone networks were shut down in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara, residents said on Monday, after authorities ordered a telecoms blackout to help armed forces tackle armed gangs of kidnappers terrorising the area.
Two residents of Zamfara, reached by phone after they travelled
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Rome, Italy
Reuters
The group of 20 rich countries said on Monday more efforts were needed to help poor countries vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, but steered clear of making new numerical or financial commitments.
Italy, which holds the G20 presidency this year, said after the gathering that
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Archanes, Greece
AP
Greece has begun administering vaccinations for COVID-19 outside churches in a pilot program recently announced by the government as a means of encouraging more people to get the shots.
Mobile National Health Organization units began administering shots Monday in a church yard in Archanes, a
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Vatican City
Reuters
Pope Francis has moved to allay Jewish concerns over comments he made about their books of sacred law, following a demand for clarification from Israel's top rabbis, Vatican and Jewish community sources said on Monday.
Last month Reuters reported exclusively that Rabbi Rasson Arousi, chair
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- EMMA FARGE
Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the Western donors who finance them are barred from dealing with the new Taliban government, a World Health Organization official said on Monday.
Around 90 per cent of 2,300 health facilities across
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- BRIAN ELLSWORTH
Caracas, Venezuela
Reuters
Venezuela this week will receive the first coronavirus vaccines obtained via COVAX, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday, following months of stalled attempts to obtain inoculations through the global vaccine program.
The South American nation has been inoculating its population with doses acquired directly from
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Kampala, Uganda
A somber mood is hanging over Uganda following the sudden death of a second prominent church leader within five months.
Metropolitan Jonah Lwanga, of the Orthodox Church of Uganda, was pronounced dead on Sunday night. In a brief social media post, the Orthodox Church in Uganda said, “Our
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- LIDIA KELLY
Australia's government should increase its efforts to phase out coal or else climate change will dramatically damage the country's economy, Selwin Hart, the United Nations special adviser on climate change, said on Sunday.
Australia's reliance on coal-fired power makes it one of the world's largest carbon emitters
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Kabul, Afghanistan
AP
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren't able to take off as pressure
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Muzaffarnagar, India
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Hundreds of thousands of farmers gathered in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Narendra Modi's government to repeal three new agricultural laws.
More than 500,000 farmers attended the rally in the
