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More than 100 girls 'missing' after Boko Haram school attack
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» DAMATURU (NIGERIA) - More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world.
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Florida students turn up heat on lawmakers for gun action
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» TALLAHASSEE (UNITED STATES) - Student survivors of the Florida school shooting that saw 17 people killed in a hail of bullets last week descended on the state capital Wednesday to ramp up the pressure on lawmakers to enact tougher gun control measures.
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Trump meets shooting survivors, suggests arming teachers
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump floated the idea of arming teachers and promised more stringent background checks on gun owners as he hosted an emotional meeting Wednesday with students who survived last week's mass shooting at a Florida school.
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Precision cancer therapy works in 3/4 of patients: study
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» MIAMI - A precision cancer treatment that targets rare genetic mutations that exist in about 5,000 people in the United States instead of the tumor's location in the body has shown success in three-quarters of patients, researchers said Wednesday.
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Mexican priests have uneasy ties with narcos
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» ACAPULCO, Mexico: When 15 armed men descended on his church last year demanding a blessing, Father Jesus Mendoza asked them to leave their guns outside.
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Australian leader to raise China, TPP in Trump talks
Reuters, Published on 22/02/2018
» SYDNEY: China's rising power and a resurgent trans-Pacific trade pact will be at the top of the agenda when Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and US President Donald Trump meet in Washington this week, an Australian official said on Thursday.
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Myanmar sees rise in tourism despite Rohingya crisis
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/02/2018
» Myanmar tourist arrivals rose 18% last year to 3.44 million visitors, despite international condemnation over the treatment of its Rohingya Muslim population.
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Philippine rebels reject terror tag but still open to talks
Associated Press, Published on 22/02/2018
» MANILA: Communist guerrillas say a Philippine government court petition to have them designated as terrorists is a desperate attempt to alienate them from the people and add they're “heaven and earth” different from extremists notorious for beheadings and other atrocities
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Blinded investigator to Indonesia graft fighters: Stay brave
Associated Press, Published on 22/02/2018
» JAKARTA: An anti-corruption investigator blinded by an acid attack is urging graft fighters to “stay brave” as he returns to Indonesia after months of medical treatment.
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Ivanka and North Korean general to attend Olympic closing
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» SEOUL - US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka will come face-to-face with a top North Korean general at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony in the South this weekend, it emerged Thursday.
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