Archive for the October 5, 2019
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Saudi Arabia gave a "positive" response Friday to a truce offer from Huthi rebels in Yemen and called for its implementation. Since 2015, Riyadh has led a military coalition in support of Yemen's internationally recognised
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A French man paralysed in a night club accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists say is a breakthrough providing hope to tetraplegics seeking to regain movement. The patient trained
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Last month was the equal hottest September in history, the European Union's satellite monitoring service said Friday, the fourth month in a row with near- or record-breaking temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Service said September 2019
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A young African child has died off the coast of Spain after being rescued from a packed boat carrying 66 migrants, the maritime rescue services said Friday. Aged about six, the child died on Thursday
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The United States, Britain and Australia have called on Facebook to give authorities the ability to circumvent encryption used in its messaging services - a measure opposed by the social media giant. Facebook has been
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday called on Turkey to "take responsibility" for a renewed wave of migrants to Greece, and for an EU-Turkish deal to be revised so Athens can speed up the
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Clashes intensified Friday across Iraq as protesters swarmed streets and clashed with police in an uptick in violence that has left 44 dead including six security forces in the past four days. Security forces said
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Cotton inched up on Friday, after reaching a three-week high in the last session, on concerns about weather in Texas, a major US growing state, while the market awaited the Sino-US trade talks and a
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Copper prices drifted lower on Friday on concerns about weak global growth even though the US unemployment rate dropped to near a 50-year low, while tight supply cushioned the fall. Benchmark three-month copper on the
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Oil prices rose about 1% on Friday as an increase in US jobs eased some financial market concerns that a slowing global economy could dent oil demand, but crude fell more than 5% on the
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