Archive for the January 8, 2018
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A worker at a factory in China operated by iPhone maker Foxconn died on Saturday after jumping from a window, according to a statement from China Labour Watch, a US-based activist organisation, which cited information
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Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge on Sunday marked 39 years since the fall of the brutal regime that killed an estimated 1.7 million people. Up to 40,000 people attended an event in
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Zambia has declared a curfew in a poor Lusaka township badly affected by a cholera outbreak that has killed 58 people across the country since September, the government said on Sunday. The curfew in Kanyama,
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Two women were found dead and 290 migrants rescued from two boats off the coast of Libya on Sunday, the navy said. The migrants were rescued off the coast of Garabulli, 50 kilometres (30 miles)
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The party of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh named a new leader on Sunday after he was killed last month by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement his one-time allies in the country's civil war. Questions
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One person was killed, three are missing and thousands have been displaced after tropical cyclone Ava tore through Madagascar, authorities said late Saturday. The cyclone, which made landfall on Friday morning, lashed the eastern part
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Singer France Gall, whose hits - including a Eurovision triumph with Serge Gainsbourg - made her an icon of French pop music, has died aged 70. Gall passed away on Sunday after a two-year struggle
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A Saudi warplane from the coalition battling rebels in Yemen crashed on Sunday because of "technical failure", the coalition and state media said, adding that both crew were rescued. The plane "had a technical failure
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Spain deployed 250 soldiers on Sunday to help rescue thousands of people trapped in their vehicles by heavy snow overnight on a highway near Madrid, officials said. The army's emergency unit UME said it sent
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Brutally cold temperatures broke further records on the US East Coast Sunday, but an end to the Arctic cold snap is in sight with warmer weather en route, forecasters said. The deep freeze follows a
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