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Four dead, at least 39 rescued after migrant boat sinks off Greece
ATHENS: Four migrants, including three children, died after their boat sank off the island of Leros in the southeastern Aegean Sea on Sunday, the Greek coast guard said. The coast guard recovered the body of a woman and rescued at
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Deadly Turkey earthquake sends rescuers scrambling for survivors
DIYARBAKIR/ANKARA: A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 killed more than 50 people in southern Turkey on Monday and was felt in Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria, collapsing dozens of buildings and triggering a search for survivors under the rubble in snowy
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Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON: A suspected Chinese spy balloon has been flying over the United States for a couple of days, U.S. officials said on Thursday, in what would be a brazen act just days ahead of a planned trip to Beijing by
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Soccer: Man United’s Greenwood has all charges against him dropped
MANCHESTER: Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood has had all criminal charges against him dropped, police and prosecutors said on Thursday. Greenwood, who was suspended by United in January 2022 when accusations against him surfaced on social media, was charged with
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Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
WASHINGTON: Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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Azerbaijan to evacuate embassy in Iran on Sunday after fatal shooting
BAKU: Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an “act of
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8 school children killed after boat capsizes in Ghana
GHANA: Eight school children in Ghana’s Bono East Region were killed Tuesday after the boat taking them to school capsized on the Volta Lake, officials confirmed. National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) told the media that the eight — five boys
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Former astronaut Cunningham, member of first crewed Apollo flight, dies at age 90
WASHINGTON: Former U.S. astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human moon landing nine months later, died on Tuesday at age 90,
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Pele dies: Brazil hero’s greatest games showed a master at work
Pele was football’s ultimate fox in the box, a player who dealt in quantity as much as quality, whose eye-popping career statistics alone marked him out as one of the greats.Footage is scarce of peak Pele, the player who emerged
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China: No immediate surge of tourists expected after re-opening
SHANGHAI: China’s relaxation of COVID-19 rules for international arrivals has raised hopes that its multi-billion dollar travel business will soon flourish again but countries longing for the return of Chinese tourists will likely face more of a wait. China’s National
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