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Up To 200 Drowned As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Libya

A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat

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UPDATE: Austria Raises Refugee Truck Death Toll To Above 70

A truck full of refugees discovered abandoned on an Austrian motorway on Thursday contains more than 70 bodies, the interior ministry said on Friday, announcing an updated death toll. Austrian police had originally put the toll at up to 50

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Manspreading, Hangry, Grexit And Brainfart Join Oxford Online Dictionary

News on manspreading from Reuters: Aug 27 (Reuters) – Feeling hangry? Can’t find a seat on the subway because of manspreading? Annoyed by people butt-dialing you? All three slang words officially joined OxfordDictionaries.com on Thursday in a quarterly update of popular

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European Shares Fall As China Concerns Still Weigh

From Reuters: LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – European shares fell on Wednesday, tracking declines in other markets as concerns about China’s economy persisted, with bank and mining stocks lagging. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index, which rose 4.3 per cent on

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New Migrant Surge Arrives At Hungary’s Southern Border

ROSZKE, Hungary, Aug 25 (Reuters) – A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary’s southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis

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Britain’s Stock Market Stages Recovery, Europe Too

From Reuters: LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index jumped on Tuesday, recovering some of the ground lost in the previous session when it hit multi-year lows on concerns about China’s economy. The blue-chip FTSE 100 was up 2.8

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Britain to Crack Down on Illegal Working by Migrants

Illegal migrants found working in Britain will face jail and have their earnings seized under new measures announced by the government on Tuesday. The government has been ramping up its anti-immigration rhetoric in response to a spike in migrant attempts

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Swedish Tolerance Under Question as Attacks on Migrants Rise

A series of attacks in Sweden on beggars, many Roma, has highlighted a dark side to a country considered a bastion of tolerance but where the far right has been gaining support by claiming society is under threat from waves

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Islamic State Militants Blow up Temple in Ancient City of Palmyra

Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country’s antiquities chief. The temple bombing would be the first time

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Death toll in UK Airshow Could Approach 20 – Police

The number of people killed when a jet aircraft crashed onto a busy road near an airshow in southern England on Saturday could climb to nearly 20, British police said on Monday. “It’s too early to tell but I’d be

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Macedonia Struggles to Ration Entry of Immigrants

Police and soldiers deployed along Macedonia’s southern border with Greece struggled on Saturday to control the numbers of refugees and migrants, many of them fleeing Middle East conflicts, seeking to reach western Europe. Conditions on the frontier were rapidly deteriorating

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Source: France Train Gunman Had Been Under Surveillance

A gunman who was overpowered by passengers during a shooting incident on a train had been under French police surveillance after foreign security services identified him as dangerous, a source with knowledge of the case and local media said. The

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WAR: North Korea Readies Troops After Exchange of Fire with South

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his troops onto a war footing from 5 p.m on Friday after his government issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts by Saturday afternoon or face military action. South Korean

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Germany Expects Refugee Numbers to Quadruple to Record 800,000

(Reuters) The number of asylum-seekers and refugees to Germany will quadruple to a record 800,000 this year compared with last, more than twice as many as the 300,000 new arrivals forecast in January, the government said on Wednesday.

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ISIS Bombs Cairo, 29 Wounded

Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb early on Thursday. A statement circulated on Twitter by supporters of the group, Sinai

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INVASION: Over 50% Increase in EU Migrants Arrivals in JUST ONE MONTH

BRUSSELS, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Nearly 110,000 migrants were tracked entering the EU in July by irregular means, official data showed on Tuesday, setting a record as the influx continues, notably of Syrians reaching Greek islands from Turkey. The European

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Chinese Police Arrest 15,000 for Internet Crimes

(Reuters) Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security”, as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet.

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Greece To Trouble Euro Zone For Decades

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Greece will be a headache for the euro zone for decades, Finland’s eurosceptic foreign minister said, and called for the International Monetary Fund to participate in the Greece’s new bailout package. “Unfortunately, this problem will be in

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Tsipras likely to call confidence vote after party revolt

The Greek government appears likely to call a confidence vote following a rebellion among lawmakers from the ruling Syriza party over the country’s new bailout deal, senior ministers said on Monday. Energy Minister Panos Skourletis described such a parliamentary vote

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Sri Lanka Goes To Polls In ‘Referendum’ On Rajapaksa Comeback

COLOMBO, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lankans went to the polls on Monday to elect a new parliament in what amounts to a referendum on ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s [pictured above] comeback bid, with the reformist alliance that swept him from

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Situation In Eastern Ukraine ‘Explosive’

BERLIN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Calling the situation in eastern Ukraine “explosive”, Germany’s foreign minister urged both parties in the conflict to come together quickly for talks to prevent a spiral in violence. In a newspaper interview on Sunday, Frank-Walter

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French Policeman Wounded By Gunshot Near Paris

PARIS, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A French policeman was slightly wounded by a gunshot on Sunday as he tried to apprehend two men who had broken into an Interior Ministry building just outside Paris, a ministry spokesman said. The circumstance

Paris Police Hunt Gunman Following Attacks At Newspaper And Bank

The Queen Poised For Record After Rallying Troubled Monarchy

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – The Queen, who rallied support for the monarchy despite presiding over what was once known as the world’s most famous dysfunctional family, next month becomes the country’s longest-reigning monarch. She never expected to take the throne

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U.S. believes ISIS Used Mustard Agent in Iraq attack – WSJ

The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on

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Greek PM Tsipras wins bailout vote, faces widening rebellion

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras confronted a widening rebellion within his leftist Syriza party as parliament voted to approve the country’s third financial rescue by foreign creditors in five years. The vote was held after daybreak on Friday after lawmakers

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Britain changes rules to fast-track shale gas permits

The British government will give its communities minister the power to directly approve shale gas permits, removing decision-making from local politicians who have in the past months blocked the progress of Britain’s first such wells. In late June, local government

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Ex-PM Blair warns Labour faces ‘annihilation’ if it veers left

Britain’s opposition Labour Party faces annihilation if it elects hard left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn as its next leader, former prime minister Tony Blair said on Thursday, urging party members not to back “policies from the past”. Voting begins on Friday

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Hong Kong Police Declare Uber Illegal, Raid Offices

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Police raided the Hong Kong offices of taxi-hailing service Uber Inc on Tuesday and arrested five drivers for the “illegal use of vehicles for hire”, police said.

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Japan’s Abe to Refer to ‘Apology’ in WW2 Anniversary Remarks

(Reuters) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will include the words “apology” and “aggression” in his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, NHK public TV said, an apparent nod to critics who fear he will dilute past apologies.

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Child Abuse Scandal Shocks Pakistan, Families Angry at Police

HUSAIN KHAN WALA, Pakistan – Parents at the centre of a growing child abuse scandal in Pakistan accused police on Monday of failing to do enough to break up a paedophile ring in Punjab province, the prime minister’s political heartland.

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