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A 73-year-old British man has died and more than 30 other people have been injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London which was hit by severe turbulence. The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-300ER was diverted to Bangkok, making an…
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A helicopter in a convoy carrying the Iranian president has been involved in an accident, according to state media reports. State media says President Ebrahim Raisi was on board a helicopter that experienced a hard landing on Sunday.…
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At least 50 people have died in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in central Afghanistan, officials have said. Authorities in the Ghor province say a number of others are missing, as people ran to safety on higher grounds just…
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Raneem Hijazi remembers how tightly she held her one-year-old son Azzouz before the Israeli airstrike hit. The drone flying over their building in Gaza was getting louder and she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.…
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The US Embassy in Tanzania has closed for two days due to an internet outage affecting several East African countries. “Due to degraded network service nationwide, the embassy will remain closed to the public,” the embassy said in a post…
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The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62, was suffering with end-stage kidney disease…
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When Rachael Fletcher-Beaumont got married last year, she was determined that her wedding wasn't going to break the bank. "There's a perception that the word 'wedding' adds noughts ," says the 34-year-old from Bradford. The thing that…
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An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts. The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High…
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For the fifth time Vladimir Putin took the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew's Throne Hall. There he took the oath of office and was sworn in as Russia's president for a new six-year term. "We are a united and…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel. Mr Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of "incitement" and said the cabinet decision had been unanimous. Al Jazeera condemned…
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