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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed in Greenland after five months

AFP A petition calling for Paul Watson’s release had previously surpassed 123,000 signatures Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been released

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Prince Andrew says he ‘ceased all contact’ with alleged Chinese spy

Reuters Prince Andrew has said he “ceased all contact” with a businessman accused of being a Chinese spy after receiving

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Girl, 11, rescued in Med after three days clinging to tyre tubes

An 11-year-old girl has been rescued after clinging to inner tubes for three days in stormy weather in the Mediterranean.

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BBC in Umayyad Square amid deafening gunfire

Rebel fighters and members of the public have gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus to celebrate the end of President

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New York Starbucks image may hold key to finding Brian Thompson’s killer

Getty Images Police in New York are using facial recognition technology and a discarded mobile phone to track down the

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Guinea football crush kills dozens in Nzérékoré

Fans climb over walls in panic after football match At least 56 people have been killed in a crush at

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Macron praises ‘impossible’ restoration efforts

Notre-Dame: First look inside refurbished cathedral France’s Emmanuel Macron has praised workers for achieving the “impossible” task of restoring Paris’s

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Russia expels British diplomat over espionage claims, reports say

Russia has expelled a British diplomat after accusing him of espionage, according to reports. The TASS news agency cited Russian

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Putin says Russia will use new Oreshnik missile again in ‘combat conditions’

Russia has a stock of powerful new missiles “ready to be used”, President Vladimir Putin has said, a day after

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Uganda opposition figure Kizza Besigye kidnapped

The wife of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye says he has been kidnapped in neighbouring Kenya and sent back home