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India heatwave toll passes 1,000
Date: 2015-05-27 08:16:12 GMT - India - International - SN:7 - ID:2673829
The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has passed 1,000, with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas, the BBC reported. Most deaths have taken place in the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where at least 1,118 people ....
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Italia calls for int'l mobilization to protect tourist sites against terror attacks
Date: 2015-05-26 17:58:15 GMT - Italy - International - SN:59 - ID:2671441
Italian Minister of Cultural Activity and Tourism Dario Franceschini called on Tuesday for international mobilization to protect tourist sites from terror attacks. Franceschini made the statement on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the ....
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France's Fabius says anti-Daesh coalition must be reinforced
Date: 2015-05-26 17:22:53 GMT - France - International - SN:52 - ID:2671205
Iraq and Syria risk further division if international efforts to tackle ISIS aka Daesh militants there are not stepped up quickly, France warned Tuesday. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking ahead of a June 2 meeting in Paris of nations ....
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Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul
Date: 2015-05-26 16:51:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:50 - ID:2670989
Outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey admits in a new interview that the U.S. military had done no contingency planning to prepare for the fall of Mosul when Daesh terrorists swept into Iraq’s second-largest city last June and ....
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Taliban suicide bombers attack Afghan court
Date: 2015-05-26 13:12:49 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:25 - ID:2668897
Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said. The police officers were killed when one of the bombers detonated his ....
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800 people die in India heat wave
Date: 2015-05-26 12:49:02 GMT - India - International - SN:21 - ID:2668605
The number people who died in heat wave that swept India in the past hours hit 800, said the BBC. Hospitals were put on alert to treat victims of heatstroke and authorities advised people to stay indoors, with no end in sight to the searing ....
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Ban Ki-moon calls for ending Israeli occupation through negotiations
Date: 2015-05-26 12:35:31 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:18 - ID:2668473
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the UN International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East has served as an important opportunity to enhance dialogue and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. This came in a ....
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Police detonate pressure cooker near Capitol
Date: 2015-05-26 06:18:20 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:2665109
Police detonated a pressure cooker left in a vehicle near the Capitol and arrested the car's owner on a charge of driving on a revoked license Israel Shimeles of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged with "operating after revocation" and was ....
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Boko Haram in deadly raid on Nigeria town
Date: 2015-05-25 15:25:22 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:40 - ID:2662609
Boko Haram fighters killed several people and destroyed dozens of homes in a raid on a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, local residents, a vigilante and the military said on Sunday. Scores of Islamist militants in trucks and on ....
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Afghan official says suicide truck bombing kills 1, wounds 40 in volatile southern province
Date: 2015-05-25 10:36:20 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:18 - ID:2658885
An Afghan official says a suicide truck bombing has killed one person and wounded more than 40 in the capital of the southern province of Zabul, Fox News reported. Mirwais Noorzai, Zabul's police chief, said Monday that the attack took place at ....
