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German security and intelligence chiefs are due on Monday to face questioning about the car-ramming attack that killed five people and wounded more than 200 at a Christmas market 10 days ago. They will be quizzed about possible missed…
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Flags flew at half-mast on Monday as South Korea mourned 179 people killed in the worst plane crash on its soil, as investigators probe why the Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames. The country has started seven days of…
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in Valencia, hit hard by recent floods, in the latest such protest over the government response to the unprecedented natural disaster. The October 29 tragedy killed 231 people and…
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Former US president Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, “saved countless lives” through his work to eliminate diseases, the head of the World Health Organization said. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply saddened…
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The flight attendants, who were the only surviving passengers of the Jeju Air plane that crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Sunday, were not able to recall the tragic accident, reported The Korea Times. The two crew…
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Charles Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent US media companies including Home Box Office Inc and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report. A statement issued Saturday by his family said Dolan died…
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The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis next year, when it hosts one of the most significant UN climate conferences in recent years. However, well before the event in November,…
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At least 179 people are presumed dead after a devastating plane crash at South Korea's Muan International Airport on Sunday morning, news agency Yonhap reported quoting firefighters. So far only two survivors have been rescued from the…
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The UN has warned that nearly one in five children around the world live in areas affected by war. The global body’s children’s agency UNICEF has said 473 million children face the worst violence seen since the Second World War, with the…
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At least 62 people were killed when an airliner veered off the runway and erupted into a fireball as it slammed into a wall at South Korea’s Muan International Airport on Sunday, the national fire agency said. Two people were rescued, the…
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