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Are human rights going backwards? Is Russia squaring up to Ukraine again? And why are we censoring maps?

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Reprimanding senior Republicans and taking on corporations have been top of the former president’s agenda

Copenhagen orders refugees back to Damascus claiming security has ‘improved significantly’

A round-up of the headlines from the UK front pages

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Troops to leave on 11 September, prompting Taliban to declare victory

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Family members say they ‘can’t accept’ that shooting was an accident

Region declares ‘personal lockdown’ as patients in ICU hits new high

Tehran vows revenge as attack sets back nuclear programme ‘by at least nine months’

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Drinkers brave icy weather to celebrate amid hope that vaccine success means ‘no going back’ to Covid restrictions

Super-wealthy eye up Florida as some Big Apple residents ‘bid them good riddance’

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Senior official raises fear over effectiveness of vaccines in wide use across Asia and Africa

Upcoming documentary claims Louvre was urged to lie about world’s most expensive painting

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What has Greenland’s general election got to do with China? Why has Jordan’s royal family split? And who has been stripped of their honours in secret?

The longest reigning consort in British history has died at the age of 99

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150 years ago, a socialist-inspired uprising briefly transformed the French capital, before it was ruthlessly crushed

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Alliances with local militants offer lifeline after collapse of self-declared caliphate

Kiev calls on UK and Nato for support as Moscow builds up its military on border

Almost 200 civilians killed by Ethiopia and Eritrean military forces in latest human rights abuse in region

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US joins EU Vienna talks as president seeks to deliver on key campaign pledge

String of lawmakers hit by allegations amid renewed surge of #MeToo anger

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Easy-to-produce jab hailed as potential pandemic ‘game-changer’

Lockdown measures reimposed as coronavirus cases hit record high despite world-leading inoculation campaign

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Are the Democrats falling into a hypocrisy trap? How did Cuba develop such a strong biotech industry? And will anything reverse religious decline?