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Ethiopia's Tigray conflict
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UK borrowing to hit peacetime high amid COVID-19 emergency: Sunak
Rishi Sunak, UK chancellor, announces one-year spending plan and confirms foreign aid to be slashed.
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Azerbaijani army enters Kalbajar, region returned by Armenia
Azerbaijan continues to take back areas under ethnic Armenian control, following a peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Germany: Car hits gate outside Angela Merkel’s office
Vehicle with ‘Stop Globalisation Politics’ and ‘You damn killers of children and old people’ graffitied rams into gate.
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Pakistan gives UN a dossier on India, New Delhi dubs it ‘lies’
Pakistan submits ‘terror dossier’ against India to the UN a day after New Delhi gave a dossier to some UNSC members.
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Iran conservatives score key victory in battle over cash handouts
Cash aid for struggling citizens could win hearts and minds for conservatives before presidential elections.
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