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The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay more than €370,000 ($416,000) to Margarita Gracheva, whose husband kidnapped her and cut off her hands with an axe in 2017.
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Sergei Tikhanovsky, an opposition leader who tried to run against Belarus’ authoritarian president in the presidential election last year, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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An aquarium worker in Yokohama, Japan, dressed up as Santa Claus to feed the fish at a local aquarium on Friday Dec. 10.
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Angela Merkel has stepped down as Germany’s chancellor after 16 years.
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Two police officers in Spain jumped into the frozen reservoir to save a stranded dog on Wednesday, Dec. 8.
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Chile’s parliament has approved a landmark law legalizing same-sex marriage in the majority Catholic country.
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Ivorian artist Aristide Kouame combs the Abidjan’s coast while collecting waterlogged flip-flops he finds on the beach. He takes them home, cuts the rubber scraps into pieces and uses them to create artwork that then values at nearly $1,000.
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Authorities in Ethiopia has closed all secondary schools so that students can help to harvest crops for the troops fighting at the frontlines of the country’s civil war.
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Dozens of people in Denmark were forced to spend the night in an IKEA after a massive snowstorm hit and trapped them inside.
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Chile’s parliament has narrowly rejected a bill to decriminalize abortions up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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Honduras has elected its first woman president, Xiomara Castro, a leftist opposition candidate who defeated the conservative National Party that had been in power for 12 years.
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Meet Wang Yuji, an 11-month-old baby from Hebei in China, who has gone viral for her snowboarding skills.