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Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Gunmen have massacred as many as 18 people including women and children in a remote village in Papua New Guinea, apparently the latest victims of a tribal feud, and Prime Minister James Marape vowed on Wednesday to hunt down the killers.
Violence has long
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, nine "water plazas" have been created that soak up excess rainfall while offering people a green space to meet and children to play.
The city is also planting gardens and putting solar panels on a
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- NAIMUL KARIM
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh is striving to stop Rohingya refugees from being trafficked but the crackdown will "take some time", an official said after the United States criticised the South Asian nation in its annual report on nations' efforts to tackle trafficking.
The US State
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- TAKAYA YAMAGUCHI and HYUNJOO JIN
Tokyo, Japan/Seoul, South Korea
Reuters
Japan and South Korea raised the stakes on Tuesday in a dispute that threatens to disrupt global supplies of smartphones and chips, with South Korea denouncing Japanese reports it had transferred a sensitive chemical to North Korea.
At the root of the
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London
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Britain is aiming to uncover the true scale of modern slavery and expose more trafficking networks through the creation of a £10 million research centre involving academics, charities and firms, the government said on Tuesday.
The initiative will drive research and boost collaboration
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- AYSHA KHAN
A prominent Manhattan pastor has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that US officials violated her religious freedom when she was put on a watchlist over her ministry to migrants at the border.
Rev Kaji Douša, senior pastor of Park Avenue Christian Church and longtime advocate for immigrants’
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- DONNY KWOK and ANNE MARIE ROANTREE
Hong Kong
Reuters
The extradition bill that sparked Hong Kong's biggest crisis in decades is dead, the territory's leader said on Tuesday, adding that the government's work on the legislation had been a "total failure", but critics accused her of playing with words.
The bill, which would allow
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- ANASTASIA MOLONEY
Bogota, Colombia
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In Caracas's main maternity hospital the blood banks and medicine cabinets are empty, the power and water regularly cut out - and women and girls are dying needlessly, according to one of the few remaining doctors, Luisangela Correa.
The surgeon is one of
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Updated: 10th July, 2019
New York City, US
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Two in three people lack access to justice - with stateless, enslaved and war-affected people worst hit - according to research released on Monday that showed the challenge of achieving the United Nations' goal of justice for
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- DAGIM TEREFE
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Endale Terefe remembers a time when he used to go to school so hungry he had trouble staying awake during lessons.
The 14-year-old student in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, was living with his aunt after his parents died.
"My aunt has
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Eritrea's last Catholic hospital was closed on Friday, with the nuns who ran the facility taken away by police and seals placed on the doors, according to a report frpm Agenzia Fides.
The Catholic news agency said the hospital, located in the village of Zager - about 30
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- GUL YOUSUFZAI
Hazara Town, Pakistan
Reuters
High walls around the neighbourhoods of Pakistan's embattled Hazara community in the south-western city of Quetta are designed to protect them from extremist militants, but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face.
Soldiers and security checkpoints greet visitors to Hazara
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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The best way to keep climate change in check is by replanting trees on destroyed forest areas the size of the United States, scientists said last week, as doing so would capture two-thirds of man-made planet-warming emissions.
Tom Crowther, a professor at
