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French film icon Catherine Deneuve suffers stroke
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» PARIS - The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday.
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Rebuke for Trump in races seen as barometers for 2020 election
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» WASHINGTON - Democrats celebrated big election wins in two US states seen as a test of President Donald Trump's strength ahead of the 2020 elections, while Republicans held fast to a governorship in traditionally conservative Mississippi, results showed Wednesday.
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Lost pup turns out to be a rare purebred dingo
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» SYDNEY: He's furry, playful, and has puppy eyes. It's little wonder Wandi was mistaken for a dog when he was found in an Australian backyard -- but DNA testing has confirmed he's a rare 100 percent dingo.
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Cyclist who flipped off US president wins local election
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» WASHINGTON: A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird -- making a rude single-fingered gesture -- to US President Donald Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.
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Xi, Macron unite on climate after US withdraws from Paris pact
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday that the Paris climate pact was "irreversible", showing a united front after Washington formally withdrew from the accord this week.
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Pro-Beijing politician stabbed in Hong Kong
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» HONG KONG: A firebrand pro-Beijing politician in Hong Kong was wounded in a knife attack on Wednesday, the latest tit-for-tat political violence to break out in a city engulfed by months of pro-democracy protests.
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'Better than the boys': Indian b-girl flips norms in world title bid
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» BANGALORE (INDIA) - Long before b-girl Johanna Rodrigues began improvising routines combining Indian classical dance with headstands and backflips in a quest to "redefine femininity", she found inspiration at home in her widowed mother.
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SoftBank Group profit plunges owing to WeWork turmoil
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» TOKYO - Japanese giant SoftBank Group suffered an operating loss of $6.4 billion in the second quarter, it said Wednesday, as investments in start-ups such as WeWork and Uber took a massive hit.
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Software behind self-driving Uber crash didn't recognise jaywalkers
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» NEW YORK: An Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman last year in Arizona failed to recognise her as a pedestrian because she was jaywalking, US transport regulators said Tuesday.
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Scientists foresee 'untold suffering', another climate record falls
AFP, Published on 06/11/2019
» PARIS: More than 11,000 scientists have warned of "untold suffering" due to global warming, even as another team said Paris carbon-cutting pledges are "too little, too late".
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