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Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on giant screens as he addresses the audience during the United Russia political party annual congress in Moscow, on June 19, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Putin promises Russians billions in spending ahead of polls

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Palestinian workers break rubble in order to be gathered and used as recycled construction materials

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Jun 17,2021 | Europe

The previous year, as the pandemic halted travel, they had fretted over the desolation of the usually bustling, 1,300-bed hotel and villa complex. They had suffered layoffs and worked weeks on end ins

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French President Emmanuel Macron (center) attends a meeting with NGO representatives ahead of the G7 Summit, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on June 9, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

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Jun 10,2021 | Europe

A Bosnian Muslim woman reads from a book of prayers among grave stones of her relatives who fell as victims of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, on June 8, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic’s life sentence upheld

Jun 09,2021 | Europe

French President Emmanuel Macron (center) talks with a young boy as he walks in a street of Valence on June 8, 2021 during a visit in the French southeastern department of Drôme, the second stage of a

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Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini poses after a training session in a pool at the Olympic park in Berlin, Germany, April 12, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

Olympics-Larger refugee team will inspire the world - IOC

Jun 09,2021 | Europe

North Rhine-Westphalia’s State Premier Armin Laschet, candidate for Chancellor of addresses the regional assembly of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, on June 5, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Merkel party wins big in last German state poll before general election

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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny appears on screen via a video link from prison during a court hearing, at a court in the town of Petushki some 120 kilometres outside Moscow, on May 26, 2021. (Pho

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Belarus opposition figure Pavel Severinets flashes the V-sign from the defendant’s cage at a courthouse in the town of Mogilev, some 200km east of Minsk, on May 25, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

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A woman stands with a poster reading “Where is Roman (Protasevich)?!” in the arrival area as passengers disembark from a Ryanair passenger plane from Athens, Greece,. on May 23, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

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Pro-Palestine demonstrators hold placards as they gather to march in central London on May 22, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

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Armin Laschet, chairman of the German CDU and his party’s candidate for Chancellor, addresses a press conference of foreign policy in Berlin on May 19, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

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In this file photo taken on June 14, 2020, Sao Paulo’s Mayor Bruno Covas poses during an interview with AFP at the City Hall of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo: AFP)

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United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and American Airlines on Wednesday all canceled flights between the United States and Tel Aviv. (Photo: Unsplash)

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Servicemen salute as their military vehicles move along a street during the Victory Day military parade in Sevastopol, Crimea, on May 9, 2021 as Russia celebrates the 76th anniversary of the victory o

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Around 1,200 people got off the vessels at Lampedusa, one of the main landing points for people trying to get across the Mediterranean into Europe, ANSA news agency said. (Photo: Unsplash)

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A visitor takes picture of an art installation titled ‘Menhara’ (collapsed) by Lebanese artist Carlo Kassabian reflecting on the devaluation of the Lebanese pound, at a club in Lebanon’s capital Beiru

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