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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile
Its leader says Pyongyang wants to establish "equilibrium" of military force with the US.
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  • 16 September 2017
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The waiting game


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Survivor art depicts Auschwitz horrors
  • 15 September 2017
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'Hillary safe space'


The website dividing the US left
  • 16 September 2017
Maryam Nawaz gestures as she speaks to media after appearing before a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 5 July 2017

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Sharif's daughter centre stage in Pakistan poll
  • 15 September 2017
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Starting a new life with nothing but a machete
  • 15 September 2017
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Belarus mushroom pickers chafe at ban


  • 15 September 2017
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Ukraine writer hits back at book threats


  • 15 September 2017
Illegal cannabis plantation, South Island, New Zealand

NZ police enlist school in cannabis fight


  • 14 September 2017

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