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Turkey detains tycoons as journalists appear in court
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» ANKARA - Turkish authorities on Friday widened their sweeping post-coup crackdown to the business sector, rounding up three tycoons as a score of detained journalists were marched into court by police to hear their fate.
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Sandy Hook to open new school four years after massacre
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» NEW YORK - Nearly four years after suffering one of the worst mass shootings in America, an elementary school in Connecticut will re-open in a brand-new, high-tech building this fall.
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Erdogan tells West 'mind your own business' as journalists jailed
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» ANKARA - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told the EU and US to "mind your own business" after the West expressed alarm over the growing crackdown against suspected coup plotters, as a court placed 17 journalists under arrest.
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France braces for annual travel 'Black Saturday'
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» PARIS - France is bracing for its annual Black Saturday, when millions of people return from their July holidays and millions of others take to the roads, rails and skies for their August break.
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With new US factory, Daimler skirts tariffs...and unions
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» DETROIT - German automaker Daimler AG broke ground this week on a $500 million plant in Charleston, South Carolina to build vans, with the company hoping at last to avoid steep US import tariffs.
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France church attackers 'smiled' and spoke of Koran
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» RENNES (FRANCE) - One of the jihadists who murdered an elderly French priest smiled as he carried out the attack, and nuns who witnessed the grisly murder said the killers spoke about the Koran.
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Brazilian drug lord turns jail cell into luxury suite
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» ASUNCION - Paraguayan authorities got a surprise when they raided a Brazilian drug lord's jail cell... and found a three-room luxury suite complete with library, kitchen, conference room and plasma TV.
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IMF: Singapore to pick up in 2017
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2016
» SINGAPORE - Singapore's economic growth is expected to accelerate next year, supported by accommodative fiscal and monetary policies, but the weak global outlook remained a risk, the International Monetary Fund said.
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New cyber attack hits Democrats
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» WASHINGTON - US Democrats said Friday they had been targeted by yet another cyber attack, while Hillary Clinton's campaign confirmed that an analytics program it used was breached in an earlier intrusion.
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Afghan cleric arrested for marrying six-year-old girl
AFP, Published on 30/07/2016
» KABUL - An elderly Afghan cleric has been arrested after he married a six-year-old girl, officials said Friday, in the latest case highlighting the scourge of child marriages in the war-battered country.
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