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At least 14 killed in Mogadishu car bombing
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» MOGADISHU - At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded on Thursday when a car bomb blew up outside a popular hotel in the Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» PARIS - The vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined -- far larger than previously feared -- and is growing rapidly, a study published Thursday warned.
US weekly jobless claims increase modestly
Reuters, Published on 22/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but the increase was marginal, suggesting strong job growth in March that should underpin consumer spending.
Syria rebels begin Ghouta evacuation: state media
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» HARASTA (SYRIA) - Syrian rebels began leaving Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, state media said, under the first such evacuation deal from the battered opposition enclave outside Damascus.
Russian media boycott parliament over sex scandal
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» MOSCOW: Top Russian media outlets launched a rare boycott of parliament on Thursday after it dismissed claims from a number of journalists that a senior lawmaker had sexually harassed them.
Kremlin calls Johnson likening Putin to Hitler 'disgusting'
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Thursday said British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had made "disgusting" comments about President Vladimir Putin seeking to exploit Russia's World Cup in the way Adolf Hitler had used the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Rebels expected to evacuate Syria's Eastern Ghouta
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» HARASTA, Syria: Buses prepared to enter a bombed-out town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta on Thursday after an agreement to evacuate hundreds of rebels and their families following weeks of regime bombardment.
Heavy disruption as French unions strike against Macron
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» PARIS: Public sector workers went on strike across France on Thursday in a "warning shot" for President Emmanuel Macron against his multi-front reform drive, with cancelled trains and flights causing travel headaches for thousands.
Sarkozy blasts 'lack of evidence' for corruption charges
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» PARIS - French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over claims the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi funded his 2007 election campaign, in his court statement published Thursday.
Sarkozy blasts 'lack of evidence' for corruption charges
AFP, Published on 22/03/2018
» PARIS - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi funded his 2007 election campaign, in his court statement published Thursday.