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Hostages held inside Sydney cafe
Published on 15/12/2014
» SYDNEY - Hostages were being held inside a cafe in central Sydney Monday with a siege underway and an Islamic flag held up to a window, witnesses and reports said.
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Trump, Dems vow no surrender on US government shutdown
AFP, Published on 23/01/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump had a message on Tuesday for Democrats counting on him to relent in the Washington arm wrestle blocking funds to swaths of the government for a record 32 days: "No Cave!"
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Trump-Kim summit set for June 12 in Singapore
Associated Press, Published on 10/05/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12, Mr Trump announced Thursday, hours after suggesting that the release of three Americans held in the North heralded a potential breakthrough toward denuclearising the Korean Peninsula.
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Gunman storms Florida gay club - 50 dead
New York Times, Published on 12/06/2016
» ORLANDO, Florida — A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, officials said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Law enforcement officials said it could have been an act of Islamist terrorism.
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Philippine extremists behead Canadian man
Published on 26/04/2016
» MANILA - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed early Tuesday that the decapitated head of a Caucasian male recovered Monday night in the southern Philippines belongs to one two Canadians taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in September.
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Trump rips, threatens to cut 'foolish' US aid to Pakistan
Reuters, Published on 02/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States has "foolishly" handed Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years while getting nothing in return and pledged to put a stop to it.
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Asean condemns hostage killing
Published on 28/01/2015
» KOTA KINABALU — Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) on Wednesday condemned the violence perpetrated by extremists in Iraq and Syria including the hostage-taking of two Japanese nationals and the apparent killing of one of them.
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Japan outraged as video purportedly shows hostage beheaded
Published on 01/02/2015
» TOKYO — Japan and other nations condemned with outrage and horror on Sunday the beheading purportedly by the Islamic State group of Kenji Goto, a journalist who sought through his coverage of Syria to convey the plight of refugees, children and other victims of war.
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Hamas says Gaza truce talks deadlocked despite reports of progress
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2024
» CAIRO - A Hamas official said on Monday no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by delegations from Israel, Qatar and the US, shortly after Egyptian sources said headway had been made on the agenda.
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Challenged by uprising, Myanmar junta cracks down harder
Published on 07/04/2024
» Thousands of innocent people killed. Tens of thousands more pro-democracy protesters locked up. The return of military rule has wreaked havoc in Myanmar in recent years.
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