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China's Rulers Push Party Role Before WWII Anniversary

An elderly Chinese war veteran's shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II. Eighty years on, Li Jinshui's scar remains as testimony to the bravery of Chinese troops in a conflict that killed millions of their people.
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US Senator Chris Van Hollen (L) shaking hands with Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia (R), a US resident wrongfully deported to his home country, at a hotel in San Salvador

Salvadoran Man At Center Of Trump Deportations Row Freed

A wrongly deported Salvadoran man sent back to the United States during a fierce row over President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies was released Friday from prison, where he had been detained on human smuggling charges.
Aug 23, 2025
A White House official says President Donald Trump's administration has not agreed to 'special treatment' for EU alcohol under a tariff deal

US Wine Sellers Left In Limbo Despite EU Tariff Deal

At a wine shop in Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood, bottles sourced from Europe are becoming costlier to import -- and soon, pricier for customers to buy, the owner says -- thanks to a resident just down the road in the White House.
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UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the famine was entirely preventable

UN Declares Famine In Gaza, Blames Israel

The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming "systematic obstruction of aid" by Israel, hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy the territory's largest city.
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(FILES) Reconstruction has begun after fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which broke out in April 2023, left the capital battered and hollowed out

Sudanese Lay First Bricks To Rebuild War-torn Khartoum

On the streets of Sudan's capital Khartoum, builders clear rubble from houses pockmarked with bullet holes, haul away fallen trees and repair broken power lines, in the city's first reconstruction effort since war began over two years ago.
Aug 21, 2025
Rights group Amnesty International has accused Israel of enacting a 'deliberate policy' of starvation in Gaza

Hamas Accepts New Gaza Truce Plan: Hamas Official

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza without requesting amendments, a source from the group told AFP Monday, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war.
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A Bolivian Indigenous woman walks past a car with campaign posters of Bolivian presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina

'Never Again': Indigenous Bolivians Sour On Socialism

A giant cruise ship dominates the skyline in the city of El Alto in landlocked Bolivia, a symbol of the transformation of an Indigenous bastion keenly fought over in Sunday's presidential election.
Aug 15, 2025
A North Korean soldier stands guard in a watch tower next to a giant loudspeaker near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in June

North Korea Denies Removing Border Loudspeakers

The powerful sister of North Korea's leader on Thursday denied reports by the South Korean military that Pyongyang has started removing loudspeakers used in tit-for-tat propaganda wars along their border.
Aug 14, 2025
Visitors are led on a tour of Taiwan POW Memorial and Peace Park

'Nobody Else Knew': Allied Prisoners Of War Held In Taiwan

In a small urban park in Taiwan, more than 4,000 names are etched into a granite wall -- most of them British and American servicemen held by the Japanese during World War II. The sombre memorial sits on the site of Kinkaseki, a brutal prisoner of war camp near Taipei and one of more than a dozen run by Japan on the island it ruled from 1895 until its defeat in 1945.
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