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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Reuters
Burkina Faso's army has ordered civilians to evacuate two large "military interest zones" in its northern and south-eastern regions ahead of anticipated operations against Islamist insurgents, it said.
The announcement was made late on Monday, with few details about how long people have to
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- EMMA FARGE
Geneva, Switzerland
Reuters
Top UN officials voiced deep concern on Tuesday about human rights violations in Iran amid reports of rising numbers of executions, including of minors and Afghan migrants for drug-related offences.
They spoke as an annual report on human rights in Iran, authored by Secretary-General Antonio
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- YONAT SHIMRON
United States
RNS
Belief in God has been one of the strongest, most reliable markers of the persistence of American religiosity over the years. But a new Gallup Poll suggests that may be changing.
In the latest Gallup Poll, belief in God dipped to 81 per
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Kyiv, Ukraine
Reuters
Russia warned Lithuania on Tuesday that it would face measures of a "serious negative impact" for blocking some shipments by rail to Moscow's Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, in its latest dispute over Western sanctions imposed on the country for the war in Ukraine.
Russian
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Dhaka, Bangladesh/Guwahati, India
Reuters
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and north-east India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain.
Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods
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Istanbul, Turkey
Reuters
About 800 Syrian refugees are returning to their country from Turkey every week but conditions are not suitable for a large number of voluntary returns, an official from the United Nations refugee agency said.
Turkey hosts around 3.7 million Syrians, the largest refugee population in
Russian journalist's Nobel Peace Prize fetches record $US103.5 million at auction to aid Ukraine children
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Dmitry Muratov, the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and the editor of one of Russia's last major independent newspapers, auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $US103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine.
All proceeds from the auction, which coincided
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- JESSIE PANG and JOYCE ZHOU
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The Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition on Monday sharply criticised the global diamond watchdog for resisting efforts to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at this week's international conflict diamond meeting began in Botswana.
A rift has emerged within the Kimberley Process - a coalition of governments, the
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- MICHELLE NICHOLLS
United Nations
Reuters
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday to extend its approval of aid deliveries from Turkey to millions of people in need in north-west Syria, telling the body: "We cannot give up on the people of Syria".
The UN mandate, which
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- ANGELA YOUNGMAN
Norwich, UK
Images of peregrine falcon pattering across cathedral rooves are becoming a familiar sight at many UK cathedrals as their spires and roofs increasingly play host to families the birds of prey with web cams positioned to reveal them to a wider audience attracting viewers right across the world.
Salisbury,
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Eight people were killed and 38 others kidnapped in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the south west.
The attack occurred during the morning service of
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London, UK
Reuters
Prince William evoked his late mother Princess Diana's work for charity, as he described as "eye-opening" selling copies on a London street of a magazine that helps to combat homelessness, saying he was committed to highlighting the problem.
William, second in line to the British
