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More than 100 dead and 6 million affected by flooding across South Asia
By CNN,
2022, July 16, 2019 (EAT)
The death toll in South Asia continues to rise after flooding and landslides ravaged the border region of India and Nepal, leaving tens of thousands d...
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France calls on G-7 to double girls’ education funding in Africa’s Sahel
By VOA,
1357, July 6, 2019 (EAT)
France wants the world’s leading industrial economies to double funding for girls' education in the Sahel at a summit next month in the French town ...
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In Pakistan’s northern mountains, plastic bags face the bin
By Reuters,
825, June 27, 2019 (EAT)
In this district in northern Pakistan flanked by soaring mountain ranges and glaciers, plastic bags are now illegal. In late April, the provincial ...
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India to overtake China as the world’s most populous country: UN
By CNN,
902, June 20, 2019 (EAT)
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report. China and Indi...
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Hundreds of HIV-infected Pakistani children left untreated
By VOA,
936, June 15, 2019 (EAT)
The U.N. World Health Organization says hundreds of HIV positive children in Pakistan cannot get treatment because there are not enough antiretroviral...
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Passenger opens plane emergency exit, mistaking it for the toilet
By CNN,
1727, June 10, 2019 (EAT)
A passenger on a UK-Pakistan flight at Manchester Airport caused severe delays after opening the emergency exit door in an attempt to reach the bathro...
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Blasts kill soldiers, Shi’ite Muslims in Pakistan
By VOA,
1132, June 8, 2019 (EAT)
Authorities in Pakistan say a roadside bombing Friday near the Afghan border killed at least four soldiers and injured four others, while two separate...
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Watchdog finds global press freedom at lowest point in decade
By VOA,
1122, June 5, 2019 (EAT)
The U.S.-based democracy watchdog Freedom House says press freedom is declining around the world, right alongside political rights and civil liberties...
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WHO counts down Africa polio clock despite fears of new outbreak
By Reuters,
910, May 29, 2019 (EAT)
Africa could be declared free of endemic “wild” polio early next year if a strain last seen in Nigeria almost three years ago does not resurface, ...
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Snakebites killing 200 people a day
By CNN,
1355, May 23, 2019 (EAT)
Snakebites kill more than 200 people a day around the world, but Thai firefighter Pinyo Pookpinyo was one of the lucky ones. When the tip of his th...
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Former CS Echesa arrested moments after leaving DP Ruto rally
By Wangui Ngechu,
2009, May 17, 2019 (EAT)
Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa has been arrested in Kakamega. Echesa was arrested moments after leaving a meeting in Malinya, Ikolom...
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Blast near shrine in Pakistan, several dead: police
By Reuters,
912, May 8, 2019 (EAT)
A bomb targeting police outside a major Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday killed several people and wounded dozens, off...
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Women still bear greatest brunt of online harassment, World Press Freedom summit told
By Rachel Ombaka,
848, May 2, 2019 (EAT)
Female journalists are more visible than ever in the digital era making them easy targets for online harassment, the World Press Freedom Day summit wa...
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U.S and China account for almost half of world’s military spending, report says
By CNN,
1758, April 29, 2019 (EAT)
The world saw a military spending boom in 2018, driven largely by the United States and China, which now account for almost half of the world's mil...
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China puts gentler face on Belt and Road, hits back at critics
By Reuters,
1008, April 28, 2019 (EAT)
China sought to put a gentler face on its massive plan to recreate the old Silk Road at a summit that ended on Saturday, saying it must do more to exp...
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China puts gentler face on Belt and Road, hits back at critics
By Reuters,
1837, April 27, 2019 (EAT)
China sought to put a gentler face on its massive plan to recreate the old Silk Road at a summit that ended on Saturday, saying it must do more to exp...
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China’s Xi says Belt and Road must be green, sustainable
By Reuters,
1332, April 27, 2019 (EAT)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) must be green and sustainable, President Xi Jinping said in opening a summit on his grand strategy, adding th...
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Khan’s interior minister pick raises questions about ‘new’ Pakistan
By Reuters,
1113, April 27, 2019 (EAT)
Pakistan’s new interior minister, appointed in a major cabinet reshuffle this month by Prime Minister Imran Khan, is a former spy chief and close al...
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Muslims flee, christians grieve in Sri Lankan town
By VOA,
1855, April 26, 2019 (EAT)
As mourners buried the remains of Christian worshippers killed in the Easter suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Muslim refugees fled Negom...
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Bomb scare, suspicious vehicle rattle nervous Sri Lanka amid attack probe
By Reuters,
1108, April 25, 2019 (EAT)
Sri Lankan authorities locked down the central bank and the road leading to the jittery capital’s airport was shut briefly by a bomb scare on Thursd...
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