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In this handout photo provided by Moscow City Court Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny talks to one of his lawyers, left, while standing in the cage during a hearing to a motion from the Russian prison service to convert the suspended sentence of Navalny from the 2014 criminal conviction into a real prison term in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021.

13:07 GMT 02 March 2021 / updated: 14:18 GMT Europe

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A US military vehicle, part of a convoy, arrives near the Iraqi Kurdish town of Bardarash in the Dohuk governorate after withdrawing from northern Syria on October 21, 2019

One More US Logistics Convoy Reportedly Hit by Roadside Bomb in Iraq

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Military guard posts of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, foreground, are seen in Paju, at the border with North Korea, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020

North Korea Conceals Suspected Nuclear Warehouse, Alleged Satellite Photos Suggest

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Latin America
2019 Bolivian Coup Regime Leadership Could Face Trial for Genocide
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Last update: 15:01 GMT 02.03.2021
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Business
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US
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Russia
Idea to Introduce COVID Passports in EU Goes Against Voluntary Vaccination, Russian FM Lavrov Says
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Last update: 15:33 GMT 02.03.2021
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Europe
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Asia & Pacific
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World
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