Archive for the August 18, 2019
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Seven people, including two children, were killed and four others missing after a ferry carrying dozens of passengers caught fire off Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Saturday, police said. The ferry, heading from Southeast Sulawesi to
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Thousands of travellers at US airports faced delays on Friday because of an nationwide outage of US Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) processing systems that lasted several hours. In a tweet at 6:37 pm EDT
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Turkey's mega city Istanbul was lashed by a heavy rainstorm on Saturday, killing a homeless man and leaving parts of the historic Grand Bazaar flooded. A homeless man was found dead at an underpass in
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Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama blasted his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison as "very insulting", saying China offers a more welcoming brand of diplomacy following a tense Pacific summit. Bainimarama accused Morrison of heavy-handed tactics after
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Nine people were killed in a hotel fire in Ukraine's port city of Odessa on Saturday, leading authorities to launch a country-wide inspection of safety regulations in holiday resorts and hotels. The fire broke out
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Regime and Russian air strikes killed 11 civilians including a woman and six of her children in northwest Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, a day after a deadly air raid on a nearby displacement
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Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday reluctantly let 27 migrant children rescued at sea disembark from a charity vessel anchored in limbo off Lampedusa island for days. In a letter, Salvini told Prime
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Kenya has approved its first ever issuance of a green bond, which will raise 5 billion shillings ($48.45 million) for student accommodation, the capital markets regulator CMA said on Thursday. So-called green bonds are fixed
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Kenya has approved its first ever issuance of a green bond, which will raise 5 billion shillings ($48.45 million) for student accommodation, the capital markets regulator CMA said on Thursday. So-called green bonds are fixed
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European shares are seen moving sideways until end-2019 and making just modest gains thereafter, a Reuters poll showed, as investors shy away from big bets on a region whose export-oriented economy makes it vulnerable to
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