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UN: Biggest ever cholera vaccine drive underway in Africa
Date: 2018-05-07 18:16:32 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:22 - ID:7388680
The biggest cholera vaccine drive in history is under way in Africa aimed at reining in a spate of outbreaks across the continent, The Straits Times quoted the UN and charity alliance Gavi as saying Monday. More than two million people will ....
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Daesh claims responsibility for assassinating Iraqi MP candidate
Date: 2018-05-07 12:46:51 GMT - Iraq - International - SN:13 - ID:7387975
Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility, for the first time ever, for assassinating an Iraqi MP candidate. Al Arabiya news channel said in a breaking news on Monday, without mentioning further details. Earlier in the day, an MP ....
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Ex-Kentucky judge sentenced to 20 years in prison for human trafficking
Date: 2018-05-07 11:30:31 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:7387725
Former US judge Timothy Nolan has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on human trafficking charges, The Hill reported Monday. Nolan, a 71-year-old former Campbell County District Judge, pleaded guilty to human trafficking and other felony sex ....
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Boris Johnson warns Trump that abandoning Iran nuclear deal could spark 'dash for a bomb'
Date: 2018-05-07 11:29:21 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:7 - ID:7387718
British, American and European diplomats are close to agreeing a joint approach to reining in Iran’s territorial ambitions and missile program, according to UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is due to arrive in Washington for last ditch talks ....
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Putin sworn in as Russian president for fourth term
Date: 2018-05-07 10:43:42 GMT - Russia - International - SN:4 - ID:7387571
Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday to assume office in the fourth presidential term. Putin took the presidential oath in the St. Andrew Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace. Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin announced ....
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Pakistani interior minister injured in assassination attempt
Date: 2018-05-06 20:29:52 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:12 - ID:7386974
Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur tehsil on Sunday, in what Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif described as an "assassination attempt," Pakistan's Dawn newspaper ....
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Two children injured in shooting northwestern London
Date: 2018-05-06 20:06:46 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:9 - ID:7386964
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that two boys were shot within minutes of each other on Sunday afternoon in Harrow, north-west London, Daily Star newspaper reported. A spokeswoman for Metropolitan Police said: "Police are investigating two ....
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Editor charged with altering Hungarian prime minister's words
Date: 2018-05-04 19:51:52 GMT - Hungary - International - SN:14 - ID:7383884
Prosecutors in Hungary said they have filed charges against a newspaper editor accused of altering the words of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in an interview published in December 2016, ABC news reported Friday. Prosecutors from the ....
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Terrorist acts plotted in Russia were coordinated from abroad - FSB
Date: 2018-05-04 18:42:13 GMT - Russia - International - SN:13 - ID:7383841
The Russian Federal Security Service has reported the detention of five Daesh members in the city of Yaroslavl on May 3-4. As the law enforcement agency specified, they were plotting terrorist acts in several Russian cities, Sputnik ....
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Trump announces date, location of his meeting with N.Korean leader
Date: 2018-05-04 18:12:16 GMT - USA - International - SN:12 - ID:7383797
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration agreed to a date and a location for his expected meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, The Hill newspaper reported on Friday. "We now have a date. And we have a location. We'll ....
