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Nov 30 - A 15-year-old boy opened fire in a Michigan high school on Tuesday with a semi-automatic pistol his father had purchased days earlier, killing three fellow students and wounding eight other people before he was arrested,…
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REUTERS: As the Lebanese currency sinks to an all-time low, enraged protestors in the country took to the streets to burn tyres, block roads and chant anti-government slogans. Lebanon's economic crisis, which erupted in 2019, has propelled…
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The new Covid variant Omicron has many more mutations than the Delta variant, according to a first "image" of this new variant initially detected in South Africa, produced and published by the prestigious Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome.…
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday asking France to immediately start taking back all migrants who land in England after crossing the Channel, after at least 27 died when their boat…
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Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock is to become Germany's first woman foreign minister, her party announced Thursday, as the country's incoming coalition government takes shape.The 40-year-old mother-of-two is expected to take on…
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Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has been evacuated to Italy, the Italian government said on Thursday."Afghan citizen Sharbat Gula has arrived in Rome," it said in a…
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REUTERS: US President Joe Biden may have taken tensions with China to a new level altogether by snubbing Beijing and instead, inviting Taiwan to a deomcracy summit. The first-of-its-kind gathering is a test of President Joe Biden's…
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The United States will resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, addressing among other issues the fight against terrorism and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.The American delegation will be led by the US special…
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Yemen's seven-year-old war will have claimed 377,000 lives by the end of the year, through both direct and indirect impacts, a UN agency estimates in a report published Tuesday.Nearly 60 percent of deaths will have been caused by…
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REUTERS: India reported 7,579 new cases of the novel coronavirus Tuesday, its lowest in over 500 years, despite large gatherings.The country of 1.35 billion celebrated Durga Puja in October and Diwali this month, during which millions…
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 22 (APP): Pakistan and Russia Monday agreed to further broaden their bilateral engagement on issues related to combatting international terrorism and other challenges to security, reaffirming their commitment to continue…
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the EU's eastern frontier, the "greatest attempt to destabilise Europe" since the Cold War.The premier made the remarks as he…
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Though there have been signs of the crisis easing, Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said he expected the border showdown to be long drawn out.Polish border guards reported new attempted crossings by several groups mostly consisting of…
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The first case of Covid-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health Organization was actually days later than previously believed and at an animal market, a top scientist said in the journal Science Thursday.…
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Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, families who fled the fighting in one southern village returned home to find something strange: the cricket ground had been circled in rocks painted red and white.White, it turned out,…
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