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School bus explosion and blaze kill 17 children in Pakistan
Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death today when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujrat, 100 miles (170 km) southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said.
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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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N. Korea fires more missiles
North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast yesterday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers. Launches by the North of short-range missiles...
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Gunmen kill senior Pakistani politician
Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. Around 150 people...
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‘Live’ toddler taken to morgue in body bag
A toddler pulled from the wreckage of a car crash that killed five family members was sent to a morgue in a body bag in the belief he was dead. Mohammed Eisa Danial Hayat was the sole survivor of the devastating crash during a pilgrimage to Mecca,...
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Netanyahu takes aim at weapons ‘leakage’ in Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect yesterday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hizbollah and other militant groups. Although Israel has not publicly taken sides...
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France pushes deal with Tuareg
After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al-Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg rebels. A standoff over how to...
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Egyptian journalists critical of Morsi face trial
Two Egyptian journalists at a newspaper critical of President Mohamed Morsi were ordered yesterday to face an expedited criminal trial for defamation. Several journalists, talk show hosts and comedians have been charged with defamation over the...
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Study finds mental arithmetic boost
A harmless form of brain stimulation can bring about improvements in mental arithmetic skills, according to a new study. The process, called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS), was still having helpful effects six months later, the...
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A guitar played by Beatles pair John Lennon and George Harrison sold for £269,000 (€317,791) at a New York auction yesterday. The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to ‘‘Magic Alex’’ Mardas, a friend of the band, was...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast today, a day after launching another three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said. Launches by the North of short-range missiles are not uncommon but, after recent warnings from...
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Iran hangs two spies 'working for Israel and the US'
Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of working for Israeli and USspy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for...
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