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Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Rohingya crisis

As Suu Kyi looks on, Gambia details mass rapes, killings in Myanmar

Suu Kyi is expected to repeat denials of genocide and argue that military operations launched in August 2017 were a legitimate counterterrorism response to attacks

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Two days before election, Algeria jails two ex-prime ministers

Ahmed Ouyahia, who was prime minister four times, received a 15-year jail sentence and Abdelmalek Sellal, who was twice premier, was jailed for 12 years

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Latvian oligarch hits back at corruption charges as US clamps down

Lembergs, an oligarch with substantial political influence in Latvia, was hit with a sanction by the US Treasury

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Labour will not win UK election, says senior Labour figure in leaked recording

The Labour Party are trailing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in opinion polls ahead of the election which will decide the fate of Brexit

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Hong Kong cabinet reshuffle not an 'immediate task', says Carrie Lam

Pro-democracy protests have rocked the Asian financial hub and former British colony almost daily for months

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French President Macron: Make our planet great again

France's unions take pensions battle back onto the streets

The strike is among the biggest since 1995 when prime minister Alain Juppe was forced to abandon an overhaul of the pension system after weeks of industrial action

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Qatar sends premier to Gulf summit in prospective thaw in rift

Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani's attendance follows an intensification of efforts to resolve the row among US allies

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New Zealand volcano eruption: Hope fades, eight missing tourists presumed dead

"I fear there is worse news to come," says Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

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Britain's Tesco considers Asia exit

The retailer giant is starting a review of its remaining Asian businesses which may result in the sale of those Thai and Malaysian operations

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File photo of an ethnic Uighur woman on a drip at a hospital in Shaya county of Aksu

China says people held in Xinjiang camps have 'graduated', condemns US bill

Muslims held in camps in China's Xinjiang region have now "graduated" and new trainees will have the freedom to come and go

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Brexit versus public services: Rival British leaders make final campaign push

British PM Boris Johnson seeks to secure a majority in the parliament to take the country out of European Union

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Iran outlines budget to resist US sanctions as oil exports plunge

The United States reimposed sanctions with the aim of driving down Iranian crude sales, the Islamic Republic's main source of revenues

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Thailand delays deporting family of Rakhine insurgent leader

Tun Myat Naing is the top commander of the Arakan Army that is fighting for greater autonomy for Rakhine state

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China copper imports hit 13-month high in November on improved factory activity

For the first 11 months of 2019, imports of unwrought copper were down 8.5% from a year earlier at 4.45 million tonnes

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French PM says he is determined to complete pension reform

Unions are planning a second demonstration on Tuesday, following a first demonstration in Paris on Thursday

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Thousands of protesters throng streets of Hong Kong as government urges calm

Hong Kong's new police commissioner, Chris Tang, said his force would take a flexible approach to demonstrations, using "both the hard and soft approach

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Germany's SPD slip in polls after choosing new leftist leaders

The party is struggling to recover after weak regional and European election results and a six-month leadership campaign

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September 14, 2007.

Chinese-American freed from Iran, Iranian freed from US in prisoner swap

Wang, a US citizen and Princeton University graduate student, was conducting dissertation research in Iran in 2016 when he was detained by Iran

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China's top diplomat tells Pompeo US should stop interfering in China's internal affairs

U.N. experts and activists say China has detained possibly one million Uighurs in mass detention camps in Xinjiang, a region in China's far west

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Iraqi PM Haider al Abadi arrives in Mosul as victory is declared over Isis

Death toll in Baghdad attack rises to 23

More than 127 others were wounded by gunfire and stabbings targeting anti-government protesters near Tahrir Square

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