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Sudan’s prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned a month after he was reinstated in a power sharing deal with the military, which seized power in a coup in October.
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Karen, Kathy and Evelyn, three women in El Salvador, have been freed after they were sentenced to 30 years in prison for having abortions after suffering medical emergencies.
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Almost 400 people are dead, hundreds more injured and hundreds of thousands displaced in the Philippines after a powerful storm tore through the country last week.
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Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who last month said she had been sexually assaulted by a former vice premier of China, has denied her comments in a video interview with a Singaporean state-run outlet.
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A COVID-19 press conference in Queensland, Australia, was interrupted when a giant huntsman spider crawled up the leg of the state’s health minister, causing a moment of chaos.
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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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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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Meet Wang Yuji, an 11-month-old baby from Hebei in China, who has gone viral for her snowboarding skills.
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Egypt has held a lavish ceremony to celebrate the historic opening of the “Avenue of the Sphinxes” in the city of Luxor, where an ancient sacred road once named “The Path of God” had been buried in dust for centuries before it was finally unearthed and restored.
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Meet Mira Tazari. The 20-year-old is currently the youngest race car inspector in Jordan and one of the few woman scrutineers in the Kingdom.