Archive for the May 17, 2017
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Austerity policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund may harm parents' ability to care for their children's health, according to a study published Monday. The steep cuts in social spending the IMF often demands can
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Four Malian Red Cross employees, kidnapped Sunday in the country's restive centre, have been released, a local official told AFP. "The four Malian workers of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) were released
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday formally launched an international research centre whose members include experts from around the world including arch-rivals Iran and Israel. The International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications
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Four crew members aboard a crashed Japanese military plane were confirmed dead Tuesday, the defence ministry said. The wreckage was found on the northern island of Hokkaido, where the LR-2 reconnaissance craft disappeared from radar
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British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday unveiled a "radical and responsible" manifesto as the party hopes to close the gap against the ruling Conservatives before next month's election. Corbyn, who is flagging badly in
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At least four people died on Tuesday when their vehicle set off an improvised explosive device in a small Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, police said. The blast was the second in two
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France's data protection agency said Tuesday it had fined Facebook for collecting information on users without their knowledge, following a probe of the social network in cooperation with other European regulators. The CNIL agency said
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Ukraine on Tuesday blocked Russia's most popular social media networks and an internet search engine in response to the Kremlin's alleged backing of a three-year separatist war in the east. The decision sparked an immediate
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At least 16 suspected Maoists have been killed in a firefight with security forces in central India, police said Tuesday, the same region where rebels massacred two dozens soldiers last month. The skirmish occurred near
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Iraqi forces have recaptured nearly 90 percent of west Mosul from the Islamic State group and jihadists in the city are on the "brink of total defeat", officers said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched the massive
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