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Iran hints at Rafsanjani rejection
Iran’s electoral watchdog said yesterday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race. Rafsanjani, if he is...
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Tornadoes cause havoc in Oklahoma
Tornadoes caused havoc in the US state of Oklahoma yesterday, turning homes in a trailer park into splinters and rubble and sending frightened residents scurrying for shelter. At least four tornadoes swept through Oklahoma, while Kansas and Iowa...
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British MPs vote on gay marriage opt-out clause
An amendment to allow registrars to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages received the support of 150 MPs in a Commons vote last night. The MPs – many of them expected to be Conservative backbenchers – had signed an amendment that, if passed,...
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Morsi sending more forces to lawless Sinai
The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula yesterday after President Mohamed Morsi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists who abducted seven members of the security forces last week. Radical Islamists have expanded...
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Tourists die as balloons collide
Two tourists died and 23 others were injured when two hot air balloons collided in mid-air during a sightseeing tour in Turkey yesterday, causing one to crash. An ascending balloon struck another’s wicker basket above it above central Turkey’s...
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Russian bombs kill four
Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others yesterday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia’s North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car...
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N. Korea fires sixth missile in three days
North Korea fired two short-range missiles yesterday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticising what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea’s Defence Ministry said North Korea had fired one...
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Putting an end to world hunger
World hunger could be eradicated if the revenues that developing countries lose through tax dodging were available to them to invest in agricultural development, says a report from charity Christian Aid. Its report, Who Pays the Price? Hunger: The...
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Celebrities get Chelsea Flower Show look
A party of royal guests headed by the Queen were yesterday given a sneak preview of the Chelsea Flower Show, ahead of its public opening today. Prince Harry was also there to show his grandmother, patron of show organisers the Royal Horticultural...
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Bond to the rescue
James Bond has smashed up a few Aston Martins in his time, but vintage car owners gathered to celebrate how the spy came to the legendary British brand’s rescue. Meeting against the stunning backdrop of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich,...
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World briefs
The largest work ever displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts was unveiled in London yesterday, covering the entire facade of the building. Artist El Anatsui posed with his creation, a wall hanging sculpture that will sit covering the RA’s Burlington...
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First flight nears, A350 could make Paris show flypast
Airbus could steal the Paris air show with a flypast of its newest passenger jet, the A350, as confidence grows over a maiden flight some four weeks away. The timescales of its previous airliner launches suggests the European manufacturer could be...
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Five dead in Israeli bank robbery
A bank robbery in Israel ended with the deaths of five people today, including one of the hold-up men who apparently shot and killed himself when police launched a raid to free hostages. Police special forces surrounded the branch of Bank Hapoalim...
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North Korea fires sixth missile in three days
North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticising what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea's Defence Ministry said North Korea had fired one...
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Briton suspected of slitting the throats of his children
French police have arrested a British man, 48, on suspicion he slit the throats of his two young children. The two children were found in an apartment in Lyon. The children, ages five and ten, were discovered by their mother. The couple, while...
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Marriage support ‘urgent priority’
Marriage between a man and woman is “sorely needed” in today’s society and it could soon be “too late” to save that union, the leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has said. In a wide-ranging attack on Coalition policies, the...
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Cameron’s rift with party core widens
British Prime Minister David Cameron is “losing control of his party”, Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said yesterday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had labelled grassroots activists “mad, swivel-eyed loons”. The...
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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by thousands, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing world. The Church should ask itself daily whether it is...
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Tunisian killed in clashes with police
One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police yesterday. The 27-year-old man was killed in the violence in the capital Tunis which continued into the evening, the...
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Nigeria offers amnesty to Islamist insurgents
Nigeria offered an amnesty yesterday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country’s northeast. In their biggest offensive...
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