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At least 68 prisoners have been killed in new fighting at an Ecuadorean prison where more than a hundred inmates died in clashes between rival gangs in September, officials say. The riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in the city of…
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The morgue in Romania’s main hospital has no space for the dead any more. In a stark illustration of the human cost of the coronavirus surge sweeping the nation, bodies of COVID-19 victims, wrapped in black plastic bags, line a hallway of…
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Some 70 Palestinians, about half of whom are children, are at risk of forced displacement in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of al-Tur as they await an Israeli court decision over the fate of their five-storey residential building. Israeli…
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has said he escaped unhurt after a drone attack on his home inside Baghdad's high-security Green Zone. A drone laden with explosives struck the building, injuring six of his bodyguards in an…
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The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over abortion in one of Europe's most devoutly Catholic countries, with activists saying she could still be alive if it were not for a near total ban on terminating pregnancies.…
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At least 11 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, officials said. An official told New Delhi Television that around 17 patients were in the ward in the city of…
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People are feared to be trapped in the ruins of a 21-story building that collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. The building, located in the city’s affluent Ikoyi neighborhood, is a construction site for luxury apartments. It is unclear…
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Laughing and joking on camera, Syrians have been taking part in the latest craze to sweep social media in Turkey. In playful TikTok videos, they've been eating bananas and challenging their friends to do so. The videos seem harmless…
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A group of women have become social media stars after discovering they were dating the same man. When the trio found they shared a boyfriend, they soon dumped him and discovered he was not the only thing they had in common, as they also…
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Facebook's announcement that it is changing its name to Meta has caused quite the stir in Israel where the word sounds like the Hebrew word for "dead". To be precise, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word. A…
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