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Arid and ablaze, Europe battles deadly heat
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» LISBON - Europe's scorching heatwave has killed nine people in a week in Spain, health authorities said Tuesday, as stifling temperatures kindled wildfires in the country and neighbouring Portugal where a ferocious blaze encircled a resort town.
California scorched by raging wildfires the size of LA
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - Tens of thousands of firefighters on Tuesday were battling relentless flames ripping across California, as the death toll from a series of infernos that first erupted last month hit 11.
Kroenke on brink of Arsenal takeover after Usmanov accepts offer
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» LONDON - Stan Kroenke moved to the brink of a full takeover of Arsenal on Tuesday after minority shareholder Alisher Usmanov accepted an offer worth pound sterling550 million ($712 million) for his stake.
Saudi seeks to silence foreign critics as Canada row erupts
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's diplomatic rupture with Canada underscores the kingdom's newly combative foreign policy to tame international criticism after a crackdown on domestic critics, as it struggles to implement risky reforms, analysts say.
Lecturer, probation official among alleged paedophiles
Online Reporters, Published on 07/08/2018
» Eight suspects, including a well-known university lecturer and a probation official, have been arrested for buying online sex services from underage boys, but senior figures asked that their names not be disclosed, said a police commander.
Two volunteers killed in Narathiwat ambush
Waedao Harai, Published on 07/08/2018
» NARATHIWAT: Two defence volunteers have been killed in an ambush in Sungai Padi district in this southern province.
Arsenal's Kroenke makes offer to take full ownership of club
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» LONDON - Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke on Tuesday announced an offer to take full ownership of the Premier League club in a deal worth pound sterling1.8 billion ($2.3 billion).
Courtois on verge of Real Madrid move - reports
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» MADRID - Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois is closing in on a move to Real Madrid in a deal worth around 35 million euros ($41 million), Spanish media reported on Tuesday.
Father sues nurse, housekeeper for destroying victim's underwear
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/08/2018
» The father of a teenage girl who died while being driven home by a truck driver filed a complaint against a nurse and a housekeeper at a hospital in Ayutthaya for destroying evidence.
Janet Jackson, Cardi B to play festival for foreign aid
AFP, Published on 07/08/2018
» NEW YORK - Pop legend Janet Jackson and fast-rising rapper Cardi B will headline the Global Citizen festival in New York to rally support for preserving international aid to eradicate extreme poverty.