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Oleshky evacuees land in Belarus on their way to Ukraine

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Four planes carrying evacuees from Oleshky landed in Gomel, in southeastern Belarus, on Saturday, Ukrainian lawmaker David Arakhamia said. From there they were due to travel into Ukraine "within hours".

Severe storm warnings cover south-eastern Australia

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A cold front meeting warm, humid air is forecast to bring heavy rain, thunderstorms and damaging winds to Melbourne and eastern Victoria on Saturday afternoon.

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Fighting near the Ethiopian border town of Moyale pushes tens of thousands of people into Kenya

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The UN said Tuesday that 36,000 people had crossed into Kenya, mostly women and children.

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China says its GJ-21 stealth drone took off from and landed on an amphibious ship

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Chinese state media reported that the GJ-21, the country's first ship-based stealth reconnaissance and strike drone, recently completed its first takeoff and landing on the Sichuan.

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Rival US and Russian drafts on the Western Sahara mission both fail at the UN

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Russia vetoed the US-backed draft on Friday, although 11 of the 15 council members supported it. A rival Russian draft then failed to win the nine votes it needed.

US, South Korea and Japan call for North Korea's complete denuclearization

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Their top diplomats, meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in Atlanta, reaffirmed their "resolute commitment to the complete denuclearization" of North Korea, the US State Department said.

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Two Chinese nationals jailed in the US for spying for Beijing

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Liren "Ryan" Lai, 40, and Yuance Chen, 39, were each sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Both pleaded guilty to acting as agents of a foreign government.

Ex-president Joseph Kabila now leads a rebel movement against his successor

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Kabila, 55, was named leader of the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation earlier this month, confirming what many Congolese believed: that he works with the M23 rebels. The M23 seized much of eastern DR Congo last year, including Goma and Bukavu.