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Biden to sign executive orders on Day 1, amid high alert for inauguration
AFP, Published on 17/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: Joe Biden's top aide said Saturday the incoming president would sign about a dozen executive orders on his first day in office, as police fearing violence from Trump supporters staged a nationwide security operation ahead of the inauguration.
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Deadly blast overshadows Yemen leader swearing-in
AFP, Published on 25/02/2012
» A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle outside a presidential palace in southeastern Yemen Saturday, killing 26 elite troops and overshadowing the swearing in of the first new president in Sanaa since 1978.
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Questions linger among the corpses of an Ethiopian massacre
AFP, Published on 25/11/2020
» MAI-KADRA (ETHIOPIA) - Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the stench of death.
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On a caravan, with one of the Sahara's last European explorers
AFP, Published on 04/06/2020
» IN THE SAHARA, Mauritaania: Climbing into the saddle, he adjusts the scarf protecting his head from the sun and, with a tap on the camel's back, the caravan sets off.
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Detroit auto show: big and bad is back
AFP, Published on 14/01/2015
» Big and brash is beautiful after all.
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30,000 flee in Syria as UN fears century's 'worst' crisis
AFP, Published on 10/09/2018
» BEIRUT - Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century's "worst humanitarian catastrophe".
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Escalation in Syria's Idlib rattles months-old truce
AFP, Published on 07/05/2019
» KAFR NABL (SYRIA) - Air strikes and shelling killed eight civilians in northwestern Syria Tuesday after deadly clashes between pro-government forces and jihadists rattled a months-old truce and sparked a new wave of displacement.
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Syria army frees Druze hostages from IS: state media
AFP, Published on 08/11/2018
» DAMASCUS - Syria said Thursday it had freed all 19 remaining Druze women and children abducted in July by the Islamic State group from the southern province of Sweida.
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One dead in stabbing rampage in Melbourne
AFP, Published on 09/11/2018
» MELBOURNE - One person was killed and two others were injured in a rush hour stabbing rampage in downtown Melbourne Friday, that saw police shoot a knife-wielding suspect near a burning vehicle.
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After Karachi attack, first US drone strike in Pakistan this year kills 6
AFP, Published on 12/06/2014
» The first US drone strike in Pakistan this year on Wednesday killed at least six militants, officials said, as Washington resumed the controversial programme after a brazen Taliban attack on Karachi airport earlier this week.
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