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Up in smoke
Life, New York Times, Published on 21/04/2015
» Kenny, a high school senior in Weston, Florida, likes to puff e-cigarettes during study sessions with friends after school. James, a senior in Fauquier County, Virginia, uses them outside at lunch with friends who do smoke tricks. Joe, a senior in Jackson, Mississippi, uses them in the morning before class as a coffee-flavoured way to pass the time.
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Desperate to escape Myanmar, migrants left to starve
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2015
» ANDAMAN SEA — A wooden fishing boat carrying several hundred desperate migrants from Myanmar was spotted adrift in the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Malaysia, part of an exodus in which thousands of people have taken to the sea in recent weeks but no country has been willing to take them in.
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Signs uncertain, but migrant crisis may be abating
New York Times, Published on 27/05/2015
» HONG KONG — No boats of Southeast Asian migrants have landed since the last one washed ashore in Indonesia a week ago. Search and rescue vessels from Malaysia and Indonesia have found no more migrants at sea. Some refugees appear to be returning to Myanmar.
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Lotte tower rises, and leery Koreans watch
Business, New York Times, Published on 20/07/2015
» SEOUL: For people hiking in the hills around Seoul, it is an unmistakable sight: the Lotte World Tower taking shape like a gigantic bamboo shoot.
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Laos overlooked in ivory trade blitz
New York Times, Published on 03/08/2015
» When customs officers at Suvarnabhumi airport recently intercepted huge stashes of ivory stuffed inside shipments of beans and tea leaves, the seizures were described as groundbreaking international police work.
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Manhattan's bodegas are slowly dying off
New York Times, Published on 10/08/2015
» José Alvarrado saved for more than a decade to buy 3 Brothers Mini Market, a bodega at 169th Street and Audubon Avenue.
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Carol Doda, 78, pioneer of topless entertainment
New York Times, Published on 13/11/2015
» SAN FRANCISCO - Colourful Carol Doda, widely credited with triggering a nationwide topless revolution as a 26-year-old go-go dancer in 1964, died on Monday in her native San Francisco. She was 78.
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Manhunt under way, Paris investigation widens
New York Times, Published on 16/11/2015
» PARIS - The Paris terrorist attacks were carried out with the help of three French brothers living in Belgium, the authorities said on Sunday, as they asked the public's help in finding one of them.
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Symbol of dignified defiance, Suu Kyi sounds provocative note
New York Times, Published on 18/11/2015
» NAY PYI TAW -- For two decades, Aung San Suu Kyi was a radiant symbol of dignified nonviolent resistance, most of that time confined to house arrest by the generals who have governed Myanmar for half a century.
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UN approves resolution urging combat with IS
New York Times, Published on 21/11/2015
» The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution, drafted by France, calling on countries around the world to take “all necessary measures” to fight the Islamic State.
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