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'Severe disruption' likely over Berlin airport strikes
Published on 08/02/2017
» BERLIN - Ground staff at Berlin's two commercial airports will go on strike for six hours Wednesday in a dispute over pay, Germany's biggest white collar union said.
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Korean ex-minister indicted for blacklisting artists
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» SEOUL - South Korea's special prosecutor has indicted a former culture minister and a former top aide to President Park Geun-hye on charges of abuse of power, coercion and perjury for their role in drafting a blacklist of dissenting artists, a spokesman said.
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Philippines: US military can build barracks
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2017
» MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given the go-ahead for the US military to build barracks and fuel depots in designated local camps where American forces are allowed to temporarily station under a 2014 defence pact, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Tuesday.
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Avian flu: Chinese cities halt bird sales
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» BEIJING - An outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in China's central Hunan province has prompted authorities to put a temporary bar on the sale of live poultry in several cities, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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Indonesia bans pre-election Islamist rally
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» Police in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have banned a rally organised by Islamist groups ahead of next week's hotly-contested election to lead the city, officials said on Tuesday (Feb 7).
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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits off Pakistan coast
Reuters, Published on 08/02/2017
» A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no early signs of casualties or damage.
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Suicide bomber strikes Afghan Supreme Court, killing 19
Published on 08/02/2017
» KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - A suicide bomber struck an entrance to Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people in the latest in a series of attacks on the country's judiciary.
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15,000 residents lose homes in Manila fire
Published on 08/02/2017
» MANILA - About 15,000 residents of a shantytown beside Manila's port have lost their homes in a fire that raged overnight before being put out Wednesday morning, officials said.
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Malaysia seizes pig-bristle paint brushes
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian authorities have seized more than 2,000 paint brushes believed made with pig bristles and sold without labels, in a crackdown following complaints from Muslim consumers.
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Syria rejects Amnesty's report of mass hangings as 'untrue'
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2017
» BEIRUT -- Syria's justice ministry on Wednesday rejected an Amnesty International report of mass hangings of as many as 13,000 people in a prison near Damascus, calling the allegations "totally untrue" and part of a smear campaign.
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