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The Nigerian fishing community being eaten up by the Atlantic

The Nigerian fishing community being eaten up by the Atlantic

The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes swallowed by the ocean -- some years ago, some just months prior.

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Trump says US scaling back military drills with Seoul hours before start

Trump says US scaling back military drills with Seoul hours before start

US President Donald Trump said he ordered the Pentagon to scale back "inappropriate and hostile" military drills with South Korea, hours before the exercises began on Monday.

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Kushner to meet Netanyahu after talks with Hamas on Gaza plan

Kushner to meet Netanyahu after talks with Hamas on Gaza plan

US envoy Jared Kushner is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after holding talks with Hamas leaders in Egypt aimed at reviving a US-backed Gaza peace plan that Israel has so far rejected.

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Nearly 13,000 displaced after deadly Indonesian quake

Nearly 13,000 displaced after deadly Indonesian quake

Thousands of people displaced by a powerful earthquake in eastern Indonesia awaited much-needed aid on Monday as they camped out at schools, police stations and government offices, with many stuck outside.

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Photos, memories all that remain for Colombia's bereaved after quake

Photos, memories all that remain for Colombia's bereaved after quake

In Torres del Limonar, a Cali residential complex that collapsed in Monday's earthquake, people pick through rubble to recover victims' belongings and return them to grieving families.

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Axe hangs over Australian batters after Darwin 'disaster'

Axe hangs over Australian batters after Darwin 'disaster'

Australia's humiliating nine-wicket loss to Bangladesh has accelerated calls for regeneration of its ageing Test team with opener Jake Weatherald and the inconsistent Marnus Labuschagne in the firing line.

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Sabalenka squeezes out win on sixth match point in Cincinnati

Sabalenka squeezes out win on sixth match point in Cincinnati

World number one Aryna Sabalenka needed six match points to subdue Talia Gibson on Sunday and join reigning Grand Slam champions Elena Rybakina and Mirra Andreeva in the third round of the Cincinnati Masters.

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Is this cave in Turkey where Homer wrote 'The Odyssey'?

Is this cave in Turkey where Homer wrote 'The Odyssey'?

On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned "The Odyssey".

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Trump says US scaling back military drills with South Korea hours before start

Trump says US scaling back military drills with South Korea hours before start

US President Donald Trump said "inappropriate and hostile" military drills with South Korea designed to prepare for a possible attack by the North would be scaled back hours before they started on Monday.

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Winning back walls from gangs, artists fill El Salvador's towns with color

Winning back walls from gangs, artists fill El Salvador's towns with color

On the walls where gang members in El Salvador once marked their turf, urban artists are now creating large murals in a traveling festival that fills the streets of the Central American country with color.

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