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Christophe Pitiot

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Record-breaking egg roll ramp, elephants and lemurs

Record-breaking egg roll ramp, elephants and lemurs

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Christians celebrate Easter Vigil

Christians celebrate Easter Vigil

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Salvage teams tow derailed Taiwan train after deadly accident

Salvage teams begin removing mangled train carriages after Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people.

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Protester bleeding from the head evacuated and Motorbike protest again

In a graphic video obtained by AFP, a man bleeding from the head is carried away by protesters in Myanmar's city of Monywa after violent clashes with security forces.

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The Swiss art of automata now part of UNESCO's intangible heritage

The traditional craftsmanship has been recognised as being among the world's cultural heritage after mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics were jointly inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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Ultra-Orthadox Jews clash with Israeli police over COVID restrictions

The scuffles broke out as police tried to close religious schools that had opened despite coronavirus lockdown rules.

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Winter fishing season has come once again to Chagan Lake in China

Each year, local fishermen use a centuries-old fishing technique to catch fish and are joined by visitors from across China coming to witness the carnival as temperatures fall from 20 to 30 degrees Celsius below zero.

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Voting underway in Central African Republic's presidential election

The opposition parties had wanted the vote to be delayed, alleging poor preparations and an electoral body influenced by the president.

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Flooding in England as Storm Bella approaches

Waves crash over Newhaven lighthouse and harbour wall on the south coast of England, as Storm Bella brings rain and high winds to the UK.

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First COVID-19 vaccinations take place in Rome and Prague

An Italian nurse, Claudia Alivernini, became the first person in Italy to receive the COVID-19 vaccine while Czech prime minister Andrej Babis kicked off the country's coronavirus vaccination programme.

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Thousands protest in Warsaw against abortion reform and PiS government

Thousands demonstrated in Warsaw to protest against a Constitutional Court ruling imposing an almost total ban on abortion in Poland, and also to demand the resignation of the ruling PiS government.

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Santas gather in Pristina to raise money for those hit by pandemic

People in Kosovo gathered in central Pristina to hold the annual Santa Claus mini-marathon and raise money to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Dakar Fashion Week 2020 dazzles in baobab forest amid pandemic

Dakar Fashion Week looked a little different this year after moving its catwalk to a baobab forest to be more socially-distant amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 vaccine set to be distributed throughout the US

Dry ice, shipping labels and packing tape were on hand as workers in face masks and gloves prepared the packages of vaccine doses.

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First batches of coronavirus vaccine arrive at hospital near London

The UK became the first country in the world to give the green light to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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Thousands protest in Taipei over US pork imports

Protesters are also angry over labour issues and media freedom.

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Flames rip through Guatemala's Congress as street battles rage

Protests broke out over budget cuts to health and education.

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Voting starts in Burkina Faso's presidential election

The security crisis has dominated the campaign and an undisclosed number of troops have been deployed for polling day.

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COVID-19: Danish farmers protest government's mink slaughter policy

About 500 tractors adorned with Danish flags and protest signs demanding the government to resign pass through Copenhagen in a demonstration against the government's decision to cull more than 15 million mink to halt the spread of a coronavirus variant.

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Saudi Arabia's King Salman launches G20 summit in Riyadh

Saudi Arabia's King Salman officially launches the G20 summit in a first for an Arab nation, with the virtual forum dominated by efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the worst global recession in decades.

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