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Blast at Chinese chemical plant kills 47, injures 640
A massive explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China killed 44 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday. The blast - which registered as a small earthquake in Jiangsu
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Death toll jumps in Mozambique storm as 15,000 await rescue
The death toll from a powerful cyclone that triggered devastating floods in three southeastern African countries has jumped to more than 400 people, according to officials, as thousands of people remained stranded "in very
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‘Suffocating smell of death’ as SDF attacks last ISIL pocket
Asmar al-Bahr says he saw scores of bodies strewn across ISIL's last encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz and stockpiles of weapons. However, it was the "suffocating smell of death" that he worries he
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How ‘liquid of life’ is under threat in the Middle East
DUBAI: World Water Day had somewhat of an abysmal feel to it across the Middle East this year, as the region witnesses a growing number of people with no access to supplies of the
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US may soon pause preparations for delivering F-35s to Turkey
DUBAI: World Water Day had somewhat of an abysmal feel to it across the Middle East this year, as the region witnesses a growing number of people with no access to supplies of the
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France urges Iran to free human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
DUBAI: World Water Day had somewhat of an abysmal feel to it across the Middle East this year, as the region witnesses a growing number of people with no access to supplies of the
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‘Suffocating smell of death’ as SDF attacks last ISIL pocket
Asmar al-Bahr says he saw scores of bodies strewn across ISIL's last encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz and stockpiles of weapons. However, it was the "suffocating smell of death" that he worries he
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Democrats eye 150 seats in Thailand’s first vote in 5 years
Bangkok, Thailand - The leader of the Democrats wants Thailand's oldest political party to be at the "core of government" after Sunday's election, the first since the military seized control of the country in 2014
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Christchurch holds public call to prayer at site of mosque attack
Christchurch, New Zealand - Thousands of people gathered for the Muslim call to prayer and two minutes of silence on Friday, a week after 50 people were killed and scores of others wounded in
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Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim: ‘We need to focus on economy’
After years of imprisonment, Anwar Ibrahim has made a political comeback in his newly formed coalition with Malaysia's current Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad - who supported Anwar's first conviction and imprisonment. Mahathir led them to election victory


