14:34 02/4/2015 |
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Unconfirmed reports have emerged of foreign troops landing in the Yemeni port city of Aden. It is not clear what nationality they are.
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14:33 02/4/2015 |
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A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 40 others, including a prominent Afghan lawmaker, in an explosion near an anticorruption protest outside the complex housing the governor of eastern Khost province, officials said.
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11:41 02/4/2015 |
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The latest report on the death penalty by Amnesty International indicates that 607 recorded executions have been carried out in 22 countries around the world in 2014, a reduction of almost 22 percent compared to the previous year.
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16:07 01/4/2015 |
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The world's oldest living person, Japan's Misao Okawa, has died from heart failure at the age of 117.
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11:00 01/4/2015 |
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President elect Muhammadu Buhari extends "hand of fellowship" to Goodluck Jonathan after winning historic elections.
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10:59 01/4/2015 |
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Iraq's prime minister has announced that his country's military forces and allied groups have driven out ISIS gang fighters from the centre of Tikrit city after month-long military offensive.
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13:10 31/3/2015 |
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Talks to reach a preliminary agreement on Iran's nuclear programme are entering their final day.
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12:05 30/3/2015 |
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A blogger has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, a month after a prominent atheist writer was killed in a similar attack.
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10:44 30/3/2015 |
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The heads of Arab League countries meeting in Egypt have agreed to create a joint Arab military force.
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09:34 28/3/2015 |
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Nigerians will vote in what is expected to be one of the country's tightest presidential races ever on Saturday, with a festering insurgency and rampant corruption high on the agenda.
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09:33 28/3/2015 |
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Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition are bombing Yemen for a third night, targeting Shia Houthi rebels as they advance in and around the port of Aden.
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09:42 27/3/2015 |
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A Marseille prosecutor said on Thursday, Germanwings co-pilot likely crashed jet deliberately
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14:55 24/3/2015 |
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An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, police and aviation officials said.
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09:06 22/3/2015 |
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The United States has evacuated its remaining military personnel from Yemen because of the deteriorating security situation, US officials have confirmed.
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09:05 22/3/2015 |
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Once again tens of thousands of people marched in Dublin. Saturday is the latest protest against the Irish government’s attempt at imposing a second charge for water. Today is the latest affirmation of overwhelming public opposition to this austerity measure to privatize the nations water, put in place by Ireland’s coalition government.
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08:34 21/3/2015 |
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The terror group ISIS purportedly claimed it committed Friday's bombings that killed scores of people at two mosques frequented by Shiite rebels in Yemen's capital -- an attack that would mark ISIS's first large-scale attack in the Arabian Peninsula country.
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08:32 21/3/2015 |
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t least 70 bodies have been found dumped outside the town of Damasak in north-eastern Nigeria, after it was recaptured from Boko Haram militants.
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10:31 20/3/2015 |
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Nine people have been arrested in connection with a gun attack in Tunis that saw 23 people killed on Wednesday, including 20 foreign tourists.
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10:30 20/3/2015 |
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Two men have been hanged in public in the Iranian city of Jiroft ahead of the regime's New Year celebrations.
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14:56 18/3/2015 |
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German demonstrators have clashed with police at an anti-austerity protests during the inauguration ceremony for the European Central Bank's new headquarters in Frankfurt.
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