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Student killed in twin bomb attack near Afghan girls' school
AFP, Published on 11/09/2018
» JALALABAD, Afghanistan: A boy was killed and four others wounded in a double bombing outside a school in restive eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to hit the country.
Strengthening Hurricane Florence takes aim at US Southeast
Associated Press, Published on 10/09/2018
» A rapidly strengthening Hurricane Florence churned across the Atlantic on Sunday toward a possible direct hit on the U.S. Southeast late this week, triggering warnings to people up and down the coast to get their emergency kits ready, map out escape routes and fill sandbags.
North Korea's 'Mass Games' return after five-year absence
AFP, Published on 10/09/2018
» PYONGYANG - The biggest show on earth made an astonishing comeback Sunday as North Korea put on its all-singing, all-dancing propaganda display, the 'Mass Games', for the first time in five years.
At least seven killed in suicide attack on Kabul commemorations
AFP, Published on 09/09/2018
» KABUL - A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near a convoy of gunmen commemorating the death anniversary of a famed resistance leader in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said.
Global climate protests peak in US as UN talks falter
AFP, Published on 09/09/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - Tens of thousands of people across the globe took to the streets Saturday to demand that governments step up action on global warming, even as United Nations climate talks tasked with breathing life into the Paris Agreement faltered.
Pyongyang ready for 70th anniversary party
Published on 08/09/2018
» PYONGYANG: Foreign dignitaries and officials have begun arriving Pyongyang on the eve of North Korea’s 70th founding anniversary, amid a deadlock in denuclearisation negotiations with the United States.
Fired-up Obama attacks Trump and Republicans
AFP, Published on 08/09/2018
» CHICAGO - Barack Obama assailed US Republicans Friday for failing to keep President Donald Trump in check, in a forceful return to the political fray aimed at firing up Democratic voters ahead of key elections.
'Deliverance,' 'Boogie Nights' star Burt Reynolds dies
AFP, Published on 07/09/2018
» LOS ANGELES - Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed heart-throb of 1970s cinema who won acclaim in "Deliverance" and a host of awards later in his career for "Boogie Nights," died on Thursday, his family announced.
Twin blasts turn regular Kabul wrestling session into massacre
AFP, Published on 06/09/2018
» KABUL - The wrestling mats were spattered with blood, the sports bags and water bottles still strewn across the floor Thursday, hours after a double bombing ripped through the Maiwand sports club in Kabul, killing at least 26 people.
Yemeni boys excited for bus trip before deadly strike, father recalls
AFP, Published on 06/09/2018
» DAHYAN (YEMEN) - Little Ali begged his father to let him and his brothers go on a class trip in northern Yemen this summer. None of them would come home alive.