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Assam police said they 'did what they had to do' in 'self-defence' [File: EPA]

Indian photographer in video stomps on man shot by Assam police

Muslims protesting against government’s forced displacement fired at by police, killing at least two and wounding many.

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Hundreds flock to Görlitz town square to hear party leaders rail against the political elite, migrants and vaccines.

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The question of who speaks for Afghanistan has landed in the lap of the United Nations General Assembly’s nine-member credentialing committee [File: Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP]

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Young people around the world took to the streets on Friday to demand urgent action to avert disastrous climate change [Christian Mang/Reuters]

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United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says access to clean energy is instrumental to improve livelihoods and social mobility, gender equality, women’s empowerment, and people’s health [File: Michael Atwood/UNDP]

‘Once-in-a-generation chance to set things straight’

Students are asking the government to take measures like limiting rents, building more housing, and offering more subsidies and scholarships for students [Courtesy: Barinamayanlar/Twitter]

Turkish students sleep in parks in protest against soaring rents

The Muslim population in Germany is about 5.5 million people [File: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters]

Muslim women struggle with Germany’s ‘hijab ban’ in workplaces

World leaders address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York for a fourth day [File: Spencer Platt/Reuters]
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Iran at UNGA says talks on nuclear deal to resume ‘very soon’

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted by contractors working for Republicans in the Arizona Senate [File: Matt York/AP Photo]

Republican review of 2020 Arizona vote expected to show Biden won


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Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Tino Chrupalla poses for a selfie with a supporter after a rally in the town of Görlitz [Ruairi Casey/Al Jazeera]

Germany elections: In Saxony, the far-right AfD wields power

Nessa, a 28-year-old primary school teacher, was killed on the evening of September 17 while walking in a London park [Metropolitan Police via AP]

Sabina Nessa: London murder reignites fears over women’s safety

The question of who speaks for Afghanistan has landed in the lap of the United Nations General Assembly’s nine-member credentialing committee [File: Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP]

Who will speak for Afghanistan at the United Nations?

Young people around the world took to the streets on Friday to demand urgent action to avert disastrous climate change [Christian Mang/Reuters]

Thunberg joins climate rally in Berlin ahead of German election

United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says access to clean energy is instrumental to improve livelihoods and social mobility, gender equality, women’s empowerment, and people’s health [File: Michael Atwood/UNDP]

‘Once-in-a-generation chance to set things straight’

Students are asking the government to take measures like limiting rents, building more housing, and offering more subsidies and scholarships for students [Courtesy: Barinamayanlar/Twitter]

Turkish students sleep in parks in protest against soaring rents

The Muslim population in Germany is about 5.5 million people [File: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters]

Muslim women struggle with Germany’s ‘hijab ban’ in workplaces

World leaders address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York for a fourth day [File: Spencer Platt/Reuters]
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Iran at UNGA says talks on nuclear deal to resume ‘very soon’

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election were examined and recounted by contractors working for Republicans in the Arizona Senate [File: Matt York/AP Photo]

Republican review of 2020 Arizona vote expected to show Biden won

New UN death toll: At least 350,000 people killed in Syria’s war

The UN human rights office says the death toll is ‘certainly an under-count’ due to a strict methodology used.

A Syrian Civil Defence member carries a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta [File: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters]

‘Release or death’: Palestinian in Israeli jail stops medication

Amin Shweiki, 61, refuses to take insulin injections in protest against months-long detention without trial or charge.

Palestinian prisoner Amin Shweiki, 61, suffers from diabetes and takes three insulin injections every day [Courtesy of Hanaa Shweiki]
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Bitcoin slumps as China bans all cryptocurrency transactions

China has declared all crypto-related transactions illicit, in toughest blow yet to the crypto industry.

Crypto-related transactions will be considered illicit financial activity, including services provided by off-shore exchanges, the People’s Bank of China said on its website on Friday [File: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg]

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Tunisia headed towards instability, analysts warn

President’s latest move to extend power is a threat to democracy that’s likely to spur political unrest, observers say.

Tunisian demonstrators gather outside the Municipal Theatre of Tunis during a protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied [File: Riadh Dridi/AP]

Aukus: In sign of easing tensions, Macron holds call with Johnson

British PM Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron hold first talks since diplomatic row began.

Johnson told Macron to 'get a grip' earlier this week after Paris spent days reacting furiously to being sidelined from a new security pact brokered between the United Kingdom, United States and Australia [Hannah McKay/Pool/Reuters]

Petrol stations close in UK amid shortage of truck drivers

Government urges Brits against panic buying as shortage of hauliers stretches supply chains to breaking point.

Suppliers have warned that there could be more shortages of petrol because of a lack of drivers to transport fuel from refineries to retail outlets [Toby Melville/Reuters]

Taliban official says strict punishment, executions, will return

Taliban leader Mullah Nooruddin Turabi says punishments such as ‘cutting off hands’ was necessary for ‘security’.

Turabi was justice minister during the Taliban’s previous rule in the 1990s [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]

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