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14 students with HIV expelled from school in Indonesia
Published on 14/02/2019
» JAKARTA: Fourteen students with HIV have been expelled from a public elementary school in Indonesia following demands from parents of other students, the school's headmaster and a local group that assists HIV-infected children said on Thursday.
Suicide bomber kills 20 Iran Revolutionary Guards
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» TEHRAN: A suicide attack on Wednesday on a Revolutionary Guards bus in southeastern Iran killed at least 20 people, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Historic show marks 350 years of Rembrandt, the 'first Instagrammer'
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum unveiled Wednesday the first ever exhibition of all of its Rembrandts, marking the 350th anniversary of the death of the prolific painter it dubs the "first Instagrammer".
A year after US school massacre, gun control remains elusive
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» MIAMI - On Valentine's Day of last year, a 19-year-old armed with a military-style assault rifle walked into his old high school in Parkland, Florida and slaughtered 17 people.
Mission complete: NASA announces demise of Opportunity rover
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» WASHINGTON - During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet -- but NASA's Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample.
Meghan Markle hounded like Diana? Hardly, British papers say
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» LONDON - Could Meghan Markle really face the same fate as Princess Diana? Britain's newspapers on Wednesday angrily challenged US actor George Clooney's claim that their treatment of Prince Harry's wife resembled the hounding of his late mother.
US Air Force agent charged with espionage for Iran
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» WASHINGON: The US Justice Department charged a former US air force intelligence official Wednesday with spying for Iran, saying she exposed a fellow US agent and helped the Revolutionary Guard target her former colleagues for cyber attacks.
Boko Haram attacks governor's convoy in Nigeria: security sources
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» MAIDUGURI (NIGERIA) - Four people were killed and an unknown number of others were kidnapped in a Boko Haram attack on a convoy of vehicles carrying the governor of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, sources said on Wednesday.
Refugee held at Australia's offshore site wins rights prize
AFP, Published on 14/02/2019
» GENEVA - A Sudanese refugee held in one of Australia's offshore migrant detention sites for six years was on Wednesday awarded the world's most prestigious human rights prize.
Apirat scoffs at rumours of coup plot
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 14/02/2019
» Army chief Apirat Kongsompong has dismissed rumours of a coup and urged the armed forces to maintain political neutrality, especially with the election drawing near.