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Sri Lankan soldiers inspect a van at a checkpoint in Colombo on May 3,2019, after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Catholic Church scrapped plans to resume Sunday services following...
World
06.08.2024
More attacks feared in Sri Lankan capital, police say
Voters went to the polls Thursday in mainly rural and suburban areas of England, with more than 8,000 seats up for grabs.
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06.08.2024
Main UK parties take Brexit battering in local elections
Wild horses run through the village of Rocio during the annual "Saca de las Yeguas" (round up of the wild mares) in Almonte, Spain
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06.08.2024
Modern breeding reduced horse diversity within centuries: study
A doctor in Pakistan has been arrested on suspicion of infecting at least 90 people with HIV using a contaminated syringeRODGER BOSCH/AFPA medical syringe containing the African produced HIV vaccine is injected to a patient at the iEmavundleni Centre, ...
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06.08.2024
Pakistan police arrest doctor after 90 infected by HIV syringe
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King Maha Vajiralongkorn has made his presence keenly felt since ascending the throne in 2016
World 06.08.2024
Five ways Thailand's new king has made his mark
Almost 400,000 people have died from overdoses involving prescription or illicit opioids over the past two decades, according to the CDC
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Insys founder convicted of bribing doctors to prescribe opiates
Laurentino Cortizo, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), is the favorite to become the next president of Panama
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Veteran lawmaker poised to win Panama presidential election
Stanford was among the prestigious universities targeted in the elaborate cheating scheme
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Chinese family say they were scammed over $6.5mn Stanford payment
Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford, seen after having their first child in June last year, have not yet revealed the date for their marriage
World 06.08.2024
NZ PM Ardern to marry long-time partner
A storm surge was to blame for many of the 7,350 deaths in 2013's Super Typhoon Haiyan, which saw a wall of water estimated to be 7.5-metres-high (more than 24-feet), blast into coastal towns like Tacloban
World 06.08.2024
What is a storm surge and why is it so dangerous?
Thousands of Australian cabbies are alleging that Uber gained an unfair advantage and destroyed their livelihoods by knowingly operating above the law
World 06.08.2024
Uber hit with Australia class action ahead of stock listing
Cape Verde's Pico do Fogo volcano brings tourists and income to the people of the Cha das Caldeiras valley
World 06.08.2024
The village that keeps rising from the volcanic ashes
The co-ordinated bombings on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka claimed more than 250 lives, with the government blaming a local, little-known Islamist group, National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ). Videos later emerged of the bombers pledging allegian...
World 06.08.2024
Sri Lanka blasts show Asia is fertile ground for IS ideology
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