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How ordinary people in Iran are helping the homeless
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Djibouti's bid for modernisation may threaten rich cultural mix
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Rescuers trying to reach an Indonesian ferry adrift in rough seas have found the bodies of two small children as well as 23 survivors, officials say.
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Funerals have taken place for some of the nine Iraqi service personnel who were accidentally killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition.
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Candidates seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the US presidency have held their last debate of the year in New Hampshire.
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Bernie Sanders apologises to Hillary Clinton during a US Democratic candidates' debate after his staff stole voting data from her campaign.
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About a third of rebel groups in Syria - 100,000 fighters - share the ideology of so-called Islamic State, a new report says.
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A deputy governor in Afghanistan sends a highly unusual public Facebook message to the president to plead for assistance in fighting the Taliban.
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About 80 people are still missing, three are dead and 39 rescued after a ferry accident off the Indonesian province of Sulawesi.
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Spaniards go to the polls in a landmark election that will see more than two parties compete for power for the first time in decades.
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US rapper Nicki Minaj goes ahead with a concert in Angola despite a human rights group asking her to cancel it.
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An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris is forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a fake bomb is found in a toilet.
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At least 43 people are killed in air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian planes in the Syrian city of Idlib, activists and residents say.
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Key Lebanese militant Samir Qantar is killed in a rocket strike near Damascus in Syria, the Hezbollah group says, blaming Israel.
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The World Trade Organization has agreed to abolish subsidies on farming exports at a summit in Kenya.
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Several buildings have collapsed in a landslide at an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on course to smash the record for the biggest US box office debut weekend, Disney says.
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Peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen break up in Switzerland, with only an agreement to meet again on 14 January.
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Dozens of people are missing in a landslide at an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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Israel fires artillery shells in response to rockets from southern Lebanon, hours after Lebanese militant Samir Qantar was killed in a strike in Syria.
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Twelve Australian families lose their homes to bushfires near Melbourne, days ahead of Christmas.
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Israel's Interior Minister Silvan Shalom steps down after a series of sexual harassment allegations.
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Photographer Steve McCurry's dazzling portrait of India
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The centre of another district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has fallen to the Taliban, officials say.
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Spain's governing Popular Party wins most seats in the general election but loses its majority and must now try to form a coalition.
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A British Islamist who says he is in Syria has described his fight against both the so-called Islamic State and President Assad.
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