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Social networks offer comfort, confusion in Japan quake
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» TOKYO - People trapped under buildings that collapsed in Japan's double earthquakes used social media to chat to friends and keep their spirits up while they awaited rescue, reports said Sunday.
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Preparations in 'final stages' for N. Korea nuclear test: report
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» SEOUL - A surge in activity at North Korea's atomic test site suggests preparations for a fifth nuclear test are in their final stages, possibly before a key political event in early May, South Korean media reported Sunday.
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Four centuries after his death, Cervantes intrigues and enchants
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» MADRID - He is best known for "Don Quixote", but the eventful life of Spain's revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as intriguing as any adventures of the delusional wanna-be knight of his famous novel.
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Japan twin quakes turned hills into deadly cascades of mud
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» MASHIKI (JAPAN) - When powerful -- and shallow -- twin earthquakes struck southern Japan barely 24 hours apart, the verdant hills that gracefully dominate the landscape turned into deadly cascades of mud.
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Nepal's female climbers blaze trails for their gender
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» KATHMANDU - When a deadly avalanche hit Mount Everest a year ago, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, one of the few Nepali women with expertise in climbing the world's highest peaks, headed straight there to help.
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Armed men from South Sudan 'kill 140 in raid on Ethiopia'
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» ADDIS ABABA - Armed men from South Sudan have killed around 140 people and kidnapped a number of others in a cross-border raid into Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government said Sunday.
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Philippine presidential candidate attacked over rape joke
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» MANILA - Leading Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, whose campaign promises a ruthless war on crime, was angrily condemned on Sunday after a video surfaced of him joking about a murdered Australian rape victim.
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11 civilians dead in attacks in Syria's Aleppo: monitor
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» BEIRUT - At least 11 civilians were killed in Syria's second city Aleppo, a monitor said Sunday, in one of the highest single tolls since a fragile truce came into force.
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Impact on Boko Haram unclear after splinter group leader held
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» KANO (NIGERIA) - Nigeria's security services have hailed the arrest of the leader of the Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru, Khalid al-Barnawi, saying it will lead to them to other senior Islamist commanders.
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Kuwait oil workers' strike sees output plunge
AFP, Published on 17/04/2016
» KUWAIT CITY - Thousands of Kuwait's oil workers began an open-ended strike on Sunday to protest plans to cut their wages, action which saw the emirate's crude production plunge.
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