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Anti-terrorist forces trying to regain control of complex seized amid explosions
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Speaker fails to select backbench Tory amendment calling for backstop time limit
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Exclusive: ex-New Jersey governor, who had prosecuted Kushner’s father, was sacked as head of Trump’s transition team -
Judge orders release of Gbagbo, who had been charged with crimes against humanity -
Commissioner calls for end to ad-hoc solutions after latest delay in letting ships dock -
A small cotton shoot is growing onboard Chang’e 4 lunar lander, scientists confirm
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The Guardian travelled to five border locations to discover how Trump’s rhetoric jars with the reality on the ground
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The salmon fishing season has started with traditional ceremonies on the River Tay. It is the first of the larger Scottish rivers to open for the season, which runs until 15 October -
Commissioner calls for end to ad-hoc solutions after latest delay in letting ships dock
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Wave of attacks in Ceará state exposes how poverty and creaking prison system add up to perfect storm -
Filippo Grandi calls on rich countries to give proper funding for developing nations that host people fleeing conflict -
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Concerns Beijing using case to exert pressure on Ottawa after Canada’s detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou -
The president backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency over the wall, but his preoccupation with it persists -
In France and Britain, gilets jaunes have mutated into symbols of anger against anything from austerity to Islam -
The long-awaited and controversial election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could set the tone for the rest of the continent, with fears that democracy may be the loser
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Blasts and heavy gunfire have been reported at an upmarket compley in Kenya’s capital, where witnesses and police at the scene say an attack is under way
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Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the young woman who hit global headlines after barricading herself in a Thai hotel room to flee abuse, has said she hopes to be an 'agent for change' in Saudi Arabia, a country where women are denied basic freedoms and are not allowed to work, marry and travel without the permission of a male guardian
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Thousands of people have gathered in cities across Poland after the fatal stabbing of Gdańsk mayor Paweł Adamowicz
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Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf has set up a solar-powered sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play the soft rock classic on a loop. He has chosen an undisclosed spot in the desert to set up six speakers attached to an MP3 player with the single track on it
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More than 100 firefighters, police officers and rescuers are trying to reach a two-year-old boy who fell down a deep borehole in Málaga province on Sunday afternoon
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Honduras’s homicide rate has fallen significantly in recent years, but the country still has had one of the highest murder rates in the world
China's Muslims fear crackdown in ancient city of Xi'an