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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses a panel session during the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, 21 January 2020. Photo: EPA
Greta Thunberg says climate demands 'completely ignored' at Davos
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday said calls to the corporate elite meeting in Davos to immediately disinvest in fossil fuels had...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: EPA
EU chiefs sign Brexit deal and send it to London
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to receive Britain's EU divorce agreement Friday after Brussels' top two officials signed it at a closed...
Myanmar soldiers in Maungdaw, Rakhine State. Photo: AFP
Arakan Army, military trade accusations after shelling death of two women
Two Rohingya women were killed and seven others injured in shelling the Myanmar military and insurgents blamed on each other, days after the UN's top...
Rohingya refugees in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh. Photo: AFP
Soros pledges $1bn to battle 'would-be and actual dictators'
US financier and philanthropist George Soros this week pledged one billion dollars for a new university network project to battle the erosion of...
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Two women killed in Myanmar shelling
Two Rohingya women were killed and seven others injured in shelling the Myanmar military and insurgents blamed on each other, days after the UN's top...
This photo taken on January 25, 2020 shows Rohingya Muslim poets reciting poems via a video link during the "Poetry for Humanity" event in Yangon. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
Refugee writers dial into Myanmar poetry slam
Divided by hatred but united over the written word, Rohingya Muslim poets in Bangladeshi refugee camps joined Buddhist bards in Myanmar by video link...
A hotel employee takes the temperature of a man who just arrived in the building in Wuhan (AFP Photo/Hector RETAMAL)
Anxious foreigners await rescue from China virus epicentre
Anxious foreigners in the locked-down city that spawned China's deadly viral epidemic say they are stranded at home, running out of food and...
Sri Lanka's president has acknowledged for the first time that thousands of people reported missing during the long separatist war are likely dead (AFP Photo/ISHARA S. KODIKARA)
Sri Lanka new govt to investigate war missing
Sri Lanka's presidency said Friday that death certificates for thousands of people missing presumed dead from the country's civil war will only be...
Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar (AFP Photo/MUNIR UZ ZAMAN)
Bangladesh allows education for refugee children
Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be allowed to receive a formal education after a change of heart by Dhaka in a move...
Medical staff work at Wuhan Jinyintan hospital, which specializes in the treatment of severe new coronavirus infected patients transferred from various hospitals in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, 26 January 2020. Photo: EPA
25 new fatalities in China's virus epicentre: official
The number of confirmed deaths from China's viral outbreak has risen to 131, with authorities in central Hubei province on Wednesday reporting 25 new...

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