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Australian ‘war crimes’: Troops to be fired over Afghan killings

The soldiers are separate to the 19 elite troops who could face prosecution for murdering civilians ...
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Cancelled prom pictures win £15,000 Taylor Wessing portrait prize

Alys Tomlinson's Lost Summer features school leavers denied their proms by the coronavirus pandemic ...
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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: PM declares assault on regional capital Mekelle

PM Abiy Ahmed says the military will try not to harm civilians and urges people to stay at home ...
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Diego Maradona: Thousands bid farewell as Argentina grieves

Fans pay their final respects to the late football legend at Argentina's presidential palace ...
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Diego Maradona: World mourns Argentine football great

Fans around the world gather to pay tribute to one of the greatest players of all time ...
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Turkey court jails hundreds for life for 2016 coup plot against Erdogan

Air force pilots, other officers and civilians are jailed for trying to oust President Erdogan ...
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Diego Maradona: Thousands of fans mourn footballer

The 60 year-old Argentinian died of a heart attack on Wednesday ...
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Thailand frees Iranians ‘in swap with academic’

Three men jailed for a bombing have left Thailand after Iran frees a lecturer held on spying charges ...
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‘Please forgive me!’: US tourist returns block of stolen Roman marble

In a letter, the traveller asks to be forgiven for taking a marble fragment from Rome in 2017 ...
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Coronavirus pandemic: Germany seeks EU deal to close ski resorts

Germany and Italy want slopes closed until January, but the EU is yet to reach an agreement ...
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