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Huge sinkhole swallows bus in China; 6 killed, 10 missing
Date: 2020-01-14 06:15:29 GMT - China - World - SN:5 - ID:8268614
BEIJING, Jan 14 (MENA) - An enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and pedestrians in China, sparking an explosion, killing six people and leaving 10 more missing, NDTV reported Tuesday. Footage showed people at a bus stop running from the collapsing ....
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3 reported killed in crash of trainer plane in China
Date: 2020-01-14 06:03:55 GMT - China - World - SN:3 - ID:8268613
BEIJING, Jan 14 (MENA) - Three persons were killed Monday when their trainer aircraft crashed in the central Chinese province of Hubei, state media reported. Rescue teams found the remains of the plane in a mountainous area of Changyang County at ....
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Baltimore sees 12 shot, 5 dead in just 1 day of shootings
Date: 2020-01-13 07:40:28 GMT - USA - World - SN:16 - ID:8267163
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (MENA) - Twelve people were shot and five of them were killed in a total of eight separate shootings in Baltimore in Maryland State, Fox News reported Monday. The first of Saturday’s shootings was reported at about 2:30 a.m. ....
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Flashfloods Kill 11 in Kandahar, Helmand
Date: 2020-01-13 07:24:38 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:15 - ID:8267180
KABUL, Jan 13 (MENA) - Flashfloods this week have left 11 people dead and 22 others injured in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, Tolo news reported, quoting local officials. The officials said efforts are underway to help the ....
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US reportedly wants to resume talks with North Korea
Date: 2020-01-13 07:22:23 GMT - USA - World - SN:14 - ID:8267131
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (MENA) - The United States is said to have reached out to North Korea to restart diplomatic talks that stalled last October, news website Axios reported. Washington wants to get negotiations with Pyongyang “back on track” and ....
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Germany defuses WWII bombs after mass evacuation
Date: 2020-01-13 06:34:33 GMT - Germany - World - SN:9 - ID:8267113
BERLIN, Jan 13 (MENA) - Thousands of people in and around the German city of Dortmund have been evacuated while crews defused two World War II-era bombs, Fox News reported Monday. The bombs were 330-pound American and British bombs. Investigators ....
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WHO advises against travel, trade restrictions on China
Date: 2020-01-12 22:15:12 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:64 - ID:8267000
GENEVA, Jan 12 (MENA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available on the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan. Among the 41 ....
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Abkhazia's President Raul Khajimba tendered his resignation
Date: 2020-01-12 20:56:35 GMT - Abkhazia - World - SN:57 - ID:8266941
SUKHUM, Jan 12 (MENA) - Abkhazia’s President Raul Khajimba has taken a decision to step down, as follows from his statement read out by the country’s former Prime Minister Sergei Shamba in front of the protesters who gathered near the president’s ....
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Armenia Airways cancels flight to Tehran for security reasons
Date: 2020-01-12 13:01:45 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:25 - ID:8266264
YEREVAN, Jan 12 (MENA) - Armenia Airways has joined the ranks of carriers that halted flights to Iran in the wake of the recent erroneous downing of a Ukrainian passenger jetliner by the Iranian military, announcing it had cancelled the flight from ....
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Taliban commander killed in airstrike on northern Afghanistan
Date: 2020-01-12 09:00:35 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:15 - ID:8265909
KABUL, Jan 12 (MENA) - Muhibullah, a "Taliban leader in the northeast," was killed in an airstrike in Kunduz province, Northern Afghanistan, TOLO News Agency quoted the Ministry of Defense as saying on Sunday. According to the MoD statement, ....
