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Rescuers in the Russian far-east have found no survivors in the wreckage of a helicopter that disappeared while carrying 22 people - most of them tourists. The aircraft went missing on Saturday after taking off from a base near the…
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Scientists are "working blindly" in Africa to track and tackle mpox, an infectious disease expert, who also chairs the WHO's mpox emergency committee, has said. Experts studying the virus said it has spread out of the Democratic Republic…
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At least five people, including two children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an urban refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed the strike, on Nur…
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Anthony Fauci, the face of the US government's response to the Covid pandemic, is recovering at home after being hospitalised with West Nile virus. The immunologist and former chief medical adviser to the president was hospitalised with…
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At least 14 people have died after a bus carrying passengers from India fell into a river in Nepal, officials have said. There were around 40 people on the bus, which was travelling to Nepal's capital Kathmandu from Pokhara, according to…
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A British warship has seized cocaine with a street value of more than £40m from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, the Royal Navy has said. HMS Trent confiscated half a tonne, or 506kg, of the Class A narcotic after it intercepted a…
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Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought. Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc…
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Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates. Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were…
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The bodies of six hostages being held by Hamas have been retrieved from an "underground tunnel route" inside the Gaza Strip, Israel's military has said. A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies of Yagev Buchshtab,…
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Mass protests are taking place in India after a female doctor was found mutilated, sexually assaulted and murdered. Medics want protection and a better working environment - but many expect little to change. "We want justice, we want…
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