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15:45 28/01/2019
Pope Francis calls Mary the 'first influencer,' celebrates World Youth Day in Panama

The tweet was one certainly aimed at the world's young Catholics, ahead of his closing out of World Youth Day with Mass attended by an estimated 700,000 people on Sunday morning.

15:27 28/01/2019
Captain in Nepal plane crash suffered 'emotional breakdown'

Fifty-one people died when the Bombardier Q400 turboprop, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, swerved off the runway as it was landing in Nepal’s capital around 2:20 p.m.

15:01 28/01/2019
The 3D-printed electric motorbike

Billed as a world first by the company, the bike, called Nera, took three days to print and cost about £2,000 ($2,600) to make.

14:44 28/01/2019
Wang Quanzhang: China jails leading human rights lawyer

Wang, 42, had defended political campaigners and victims of land seizures, as well as followers of the banned spiritual Falun Gong movement.

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13:41 28/01/2019
Bahrain's upholds life sentence against opposition leaders

Al-Wefaq secretary-general Sheikh Ali Salman and two senior al-Wefaq leaders Sheikh Hassan Sultan and Ali Alaswad were sentenced to life imprisonment in November.

13:28 28/01/2019
Boris Johnson tells UK's May: Ditch the Irish backstop and get support

With less than nine weeks until the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the European Union on March 29, there is no agreement yet in London on how and even whether to leave the world’s biggest trading bloc.

13:00 28/01/2019
Brumadinho dam: 'Very low' hope for hundreds missing in Brazil

No-one was rescued alive on Sunday near the south-eastern town of Brumadinho as the number of dead rose to 58.

12:43 28/01/2019
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'Yellow vests' back on France's streets to challenge Macron

Police fired tear gas and water cannon to push back protesters at Place de la Bastille in Paris, one of the regular protest areas, as some demonstrators threw stones from a building site.

12:02 28/01/2019
Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe

Casey Hathaway from North Carolina hailed ‘a survivor’ by police after becoming lost in sub-zero temperatures.

11:38 28/01/2019
Wang Quanzhang: China sentences human rights lawyer to four years in prison

Lawyer who defended activists, victims of land seizures, and members of Falun Gong found guilty of 'subversion of state power'.

11:16 28/01/2019
Nissan says co-operating with SEC inquiry after report of probe on executive pay

Nissan has accused its former chairman Carlos Ghosn, first arrested on Nov. 19, of financial misconduct. Prosecutors have charged Nissan along with Ghosn for under-reporting his pay. Ghosn has denied the charges.

10:45 28/01/2019
Russian police find stolen painting, detain suspected thief

A 31-year-old man told police where he had hidden the painting, TASS quoted a spokeswoman for the Russian Internal Ministry, Irina Volk, as saying.

10:00 28/01/2019
Extremely rare albino raccoon spotted in Seaforth

She saw what looked like an opossum, but upon closer inspection turned out to be an extremely rare albino raccoon.

18:38 26/01/2019
Germany's Merkel calls for 'zero tolerance' of anti-Semitism, hate

Millions of people were robbed of their rights, tortured and murdered — including an estimated six million Jews — across Europe from 1933 to 1945, when the Nazis ruled Germany.

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Armenian ambassador meets with Georgian FM
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Armenian church commemorates Patriarchs Athanasius and Cyril
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National Erasmus+ Office in Armenia closed
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Union of Judges reacts to ECHR ruling on Suren Antonyan's dismissal
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