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About 50 men from Free Syrian Army cross border as Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops travel towards town
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Local medics and officials work with international agencies to quickly trace and isolate the disease after initial delay, writes Katarina Höije
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Quotes from senior Obama administration figures damn Israeli prime minister over stance on settlements and Palestinian peace
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Zambian government confirms 77-year-old president died of undisclosed illness with wife and son by his side
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Rightwing prime minister Viktor Orbán is using his huge electoral majority to rewrite the rules, and not just for Hungary
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Yehuda Glick shot at close range outside meeting of Israeli activists at the city’s Begin Centre
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Roma group calls on Royal Spanish Academy to remove latest definition of the word, saying ‘language has consequences’
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More than 200 Iraqi peshmerga and Free Syrian Army soldiers carrying heavy weapons head for the town to join battle
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled a new presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara. The immense project has been built at a reported cost of $350m. The building has been denounced by ecologists as an environmental blight and by the opposition as evidence of Erdogan’s autocratic tendencies. Supporters say the palace is a symbol of what the president touts as his drive towards a ‘new Turkey’
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Kaci Hickox, who was held for days in an isolation tent in New Jersey, says she doesn’t plan on obeying home quarantine in her home state
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Sand thwarted its progress and thieves stole its tracks, but locomotive is finally heading for Cairo
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Dr Jeremy Farrar says international community is belatedly taking the actions necessary to stem the tide of the disease
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David Christopherson of the New Democratic party says ‘I am going to walk back in the room and pick up where we left off last week’
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President Dilma Rousseff has maintained her position as the president of Brazil after securing 51.6% of votes in Brazil’s closest election in generations. Brazilian readers told us what they really think about her re-election
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Number of billionaires on Earth has more than doubled since the financial crisis, according to a new report from Oxfam
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The UK falls eight places in rankings measuring gender equality worldwide, with Nordic countries such as Iceland and Sweden continuing to come out on top
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Twenty five years after its fall, more pieces of the Berlin wall are scattered across the globe – from Seattle to South Korea, Cape Town to Canberra – than remain in the city itself
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A new website aims to demystify Australia’s parliamentary voting process
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What do you call these things? These interactive maps show the language divide in Australia
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Sudden slump in price of crude – now at its lowest for four years – sends tremors through capitals of the world’s great oil powers. A look at the economic and geopolitical implications of $80 oil
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The proportion of the country’s wealth owned by the top 10% has increased between 2000 and 2014, according to a new report
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With an estimated 260,000 illicit firearms in circulation, an inquiry is examining the extent of the gun-trafficking problem
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Snake to be shrunk in half in an effort to reduce the sweet’s portion size
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From UN member states to NGOs, the African Development Bank and the private sector – the numbers revealed
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A professor of statistics at Monash University explains exactly what is seasonal adjustment, why it matters and what went wrong in the July and August figures
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Over 13,000 Instagram photos captured during 144 hours of the Ukrainian revolution in February have been used to create this huge data visualisation
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Statistics show we’re downloading more and increasingly opting for faster connections, but Australia’s average internet speed may be falling behind the global average
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Andrei Sannikov: growing numbers of politicians and intellectuals are justifying Russian aggression – why can’t they see Moscow is not just a threat to Kiev, but to Europe as whole?
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Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus at heart of post-Soviet trading bloc that aspires to commerce but not community
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Three years after his death brought an end to more than 40 years of autocratic rule, experts assess its continuing impact
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Lenore Taylor: Security, renewables and asylum could all benefit from proper debates but voters won’t stand for being tricked
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As the jihadi group sends new recruits to face air strikes, its leaders plant ever deeper roots in areas it occupies
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Haven’t been following the US midterm elections closely? Here’s a roundup of the most notable – and notorious – races
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The photos of African migrants looking on as white people play golf are a metaphor for Europe’s attitude to refugees
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US congressman blames suicide on government ‘largesse’ one day after belittling victims before a high school assembly
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In August he appeared untouchable, but cracks are showing in the prime minister’s rightwing coalition. Can he reinvent himself?
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Analysis: President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc is campaigning on a message of peace and unity ahead of Sunday’s election. But with the country so bitterly divided, parliament is likely to become another battlefield, writes Balázs Jarábik for Eurasia Outlook
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Stephen Harper’s government faces difficult questions after Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed a soldier and fired shots in Canada’s parliament
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Experts view successful prosecution of US security contractors responsible for Baghdad massacre as important landmark
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Islamic State’s military prowess and string of defections leave once-formidable Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on the ropes
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The reaction to Whitlam’s passing suggests Australians still want politicians who fire their imagination and dare to be brave
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The segregation of those wearing face coverings is rescinded as questions are asked over how it came about in the first place
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From the bush to the city, eight finalists are waiting to see which group will take out the 2014 Indigenous governance award
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First Dog on the Moon shares some of his early, unpublished work with the Guardian Australia multimedia team. There are curious teen pizzas and sea cucumbers with appalling habits, and of course, early renditions of the Dog himself
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Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano is creeping forward and putting homes at risk in the town of Pahoa, Hawaii
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled a new presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara. The immense project has been built at a reported cost of $350m. The building has been denounced by ecologists as an environmental blight and by the opposition as evidence of Erdogan’s autocratic tendencies. Supporters say the palace is a symbol of what the president touts as his drive towards a ‘new Turkey’
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Molten lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano advances on the residential area of Pahoa on Tuesday
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An audio recording of a 999 call by Lucy Lee before she was murdered with her mother on a puppy farm near Farnham, Surrey
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US president praises health workers battling Ebola in the worst affected West Africa nations
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Earlier this month a GuardianWitness Award winner, Barbaros Kayan, visited the refugee camps in southern Turkey
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Ten people are known to have died and a further 250 are missing after a landslide in Haldummulla, Sri Lanka
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An SBS series promises to reveal the unsustainable fishing practices prevalent in the seafood industry
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A University of Canberra lecturer in sustainable communities has challenged Labor leader Bill Shorten over a potential weakening of the renewable energy target
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Hong Kong police fire volleys of tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protesters as demonstrators mark the one month anniversary of the start of their campaign on Tuesday
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Thousands of people have lined the streets of Hamilton, Canada, for the funeral of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo who killed in Ottawa last week
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British war hero Sir Nicholas Winton was awarded the highest state honour by the Czech Republic on Tuesday
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US-led forces strike Islamic State (Isis) targets in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday
An EU bill bomb – but no one thought to tell the prime minister