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Instagram user base surges to 500 million
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - The user base of photo-sharing service Instagram has surged to half a billion, adding its latest 100 million in less than a year, the Facebook-owned application said Tuesday.
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From death row to romance: ex-con couple beats the odds
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» OSLO - She was headed for the electric chair in Florida, he for the gallows in Ireland: both escaped death row and are now an unlikely couple campaigning for an end to capital punishment.
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Doubling of sports sponsorship brings in corporate titans
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» PARIS - Sports sponsorship has almost doubled since 2010 to $60 billion a year and scandals that have hit football and athletics will not put off corporate titans, according to the newest entrant to the sports intelligence business.
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S44 order gives more power to drug officials
Online Reporters, Published on 21/06/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday exercised Section 44 of the interim constitution to give more power to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) in dealing with the smuggling and illegal use of chemicals for narcotics production.
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Returned astronaut Tim Peake relishes little things
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» PARIS - Using a normal toilet and appreciating weather -- "any weather whatsoever" -- are some of the small pleasures astronaut Tim Peake has enjoyed most since returning from the International Space Station (ISS), he said Tuesday.
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Fed's Yellen: US economy faces 'considerable uncertainty'
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that the US economy faces "considerable uncertainty" from slower domestic activity and from a possible British vote to break with the European Union.
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Ibrahimovic to quit international football after Euro 2016
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» NICE (FRANCE) - Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced on Tuesday he will retire from international football after Euro 2016.
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Myanmar bars officials from saying 'Rohingya' as UN envoy visits
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» YANGON - Myanmar officials must refer to the oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority as "people who believe in Islam" rather than by their name, according to a letter seen by AFP Tuesday, as a UN rights envoy prepares to visit the benighted group.
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Prayut uses Section 44 to fight brawls
Online Reporters, Published on 21/06/2016
» Student violence between rival schools has become the latest target for Prayut Chan-o-cha as the prime minister decided on Tuesday to exercise his special authority to try to clamp it down.
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British PM says Brexit poses 'huge risk' to economy
AFP, Published on 21/06/2016
» LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Tuesday that a vote to leave the EU in less than 48 hours would damage the economy, representing a "huge risk" for jobs and families.
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