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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls’ education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.Yousafzai was evacuated from the country in 2012 after being shot by the Pakistan Taliban, who were enraged by her activism, and she has returned to the …

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A Russian court will next week issue verdicts against three of Alexei Navalny’s former lawyers, being tried for “extremism” as part of an escalating crackdown on the Kremlin critic’s allies even after his death.The charismatic opposition leader brought tens of thousands onto the streets to protest against President Vladimir Putin, while his investigations into the …

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South Korea’s presidential security chief resigned Friday as he faced questioning over why his guards prevented the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, and as investigators prepared to make a fresh arrest attempt.Yoon last week resisted arrest in a standoff between his guards and investigators after his short-lived power grab on December 3 plunged …

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Research published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.The number of dead in Gaza has become a matter of bitter debate since Israel launched its military …

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South Korea’s presidential security chief resigned Friday as he faced questioning over why his guards prevented the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and investigators prepared to make a fresh arrest attempt.Yoon has refused questioning and last week resisted arrest in a stand-off between his guards and investigators after his short-lived power grab on …

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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus.”It’s a great pleasure… to be here this morning to visit and pay homage to all Syrian believers,” he told AFP from the mosque, which is about 1,300 years old and …

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Flying south through smoky skies down the famous Malibu coast, at first the burnt-out mansions are the exception — solitary wrecks, smoldering away between rows of intact, gleaming beachfront villas.But draw closer to Pacific Palisades, the ground zero of Los Angeles’s devastating fires, and those small scorched ruins become sporadic clusters, and then endless rows …

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Pakistan’s state-owned airline, plagued by a history of deadly crashes and a pilot licence scandal, resumed flights to Europe on Friday after a four-year ban was lifted by EU regulators.The Pakistan International Airlines flight took off from Islamabad around 1240 pm (0740 GMT) heading for Paris, AFP journalists saw, becoming the only carrier to offer a …

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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, due to be sworn in Friday for a third six-year term after elections he is widely accused of stealing, has been written off many times during a turbulent decade in power. But the former bus driver has stubbornly clung to the wheel.With neither the charisma nor the flush oil revenues of his …

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Nicholas Norman managed to save his home using little more than buckets of water when towering flames ripped through his neighborhood in a suburb of Los Angeles. But now he’s facing a new danger: looters.After surviving the terror of a chaotic wind-driven fire, Norman was at his Altadena house when he saw two suspicious men …

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