Next in Putin's sights? Estonia town stuck between two worlds
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
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Family of US news anchor's missing mother renews plea to kidnappers
The family of the kidnapped mother of a top US TV news anchor made a new plea for information from her captors on Thursday, after investigators said they believed the 84-year-old was still alive.
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Spin woes, injury and poor form dog Australia for T20 World Cup
Captain Mitchell Marsh insists Australia can put their spin woes behind them at the T20 Cricket World Cup after a morale-sapping series defeat to Pakistan left their preparations in tatters.
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Japan's Liberal Democratic Party: an election bulldozer
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one of the democratic world's most successful electoral machines, governing for all but four years since its founding seven decades ago.
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Hazlewood out of T20 World Cup in fresh blow to Australia
Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood was on Friday ruled out of the T20 World Cup after failing to recover from hamstring and Achilles injuries in another setback for Australia.
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Japan scouring social media 24 hours a day for abuse of Olympic athletes
Japan's Olympic committee is monitoring social media round the clock to protect athletes at the Milan-Cortina Games from online abuse and has already asked for hundreds of posts to be removed.
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Bangladesh Islamist leader seeks power in post-uprising vote
The leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party and prime ministerial hopeful Shafiqur Rahman has contested three elections and lost.
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Rams' Stafford named NFL's Most Valuable Player
Veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford was named this season's NFL Most Valuable Player on Thursday, barely edging Drake Maye in the closest vote in years.
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Japan to restart world's biggest nuclear plant
Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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Japan's Sanae Takaichi: Iron Lady 2.0 hopes for election boost
Sanae Takaichi, a staunch conservative who admires Margaret Thatcher, became Japan's first woman prime minister in October but has shown little appetite for framing her leadership around gender.
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