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The Princess of Wales, seen at Trooping the Colour in June as she made a tentative return to public life. Photo: AFP/Justin Tallis Britain's Princess Kate, who is recovering from preventative treatment she underwent for cancer this year, will attend two events this weekend to commemorate Remembrance Day in London, Buckingham Palace says. The Princess of Wales, 42, said in September she had finished her course of preventative chemotherapy but cautioned her path to full recovery would be long, and her focus was to remain cancer-free. At the time, she said she would be carrying out a handful of public engagements later in the year. Her last public appearance was last month when she met the bereaved families of three young girls who were murdered at a dance class in Southport, northwest Eng...

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has erupted again. (File image) Photo: AFP Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted several times on Friday, belching volcanic ash that rose up to 10km into the sky, officials said, following a big eruption on Sunday night that killed nine people. The eruption on the island of Flores in the province of East Nusa Tenggara has damaged more than 2000 houses and caused thousands to evacuate. Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the country's disaster mitigation agency, said the eruptions were "pretty significant" due to ash rains and sand-falls that reached far into the surrounding areas. Hadi Wijaya, chief of Indonesia's volcanology agency, said one eruption on Friday produced a towering ash column that reached eight km to 10km high, adding volcanic matter and hot ga...

By Emma Farge, Reuters Palestinians survey the damage from an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in April, reported to have killed about 35 people. Photo: Jehad Alshrafi / AP Report covers fatalities verified by UN rights office It says nearly 70 percent were women and children Israel says it takes care to avoid harming civilians The U.N. Human Rights Office says nearly 70 percent of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza war were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. The U.N. count covers the first seven months of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip that began more than a year ago. The 8119 victims verified by the U.N. Rights Office in that seven-month period is considerably l...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, looks at US President Donald Trump before posing for a family photo before the G20 summit in Argentina, 30 November, 2018. Photo: Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik via AFP By Vladimir Soldatkin, Reuters Russia President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the US presidential election, praising him for showing bravery when a gunman tried to assassinate him, and said Moscow was ready to talk to the Republican president-elect. "I would like to congratulate him on his election as president," Putin told the Valdai discussion club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Trump said during campaigning that he could bring peace in Ukraine within 24 hours if he was elected, but has given few details on how he would seek to end the biggest land w...