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SPAIN: Spanish police said yesterday (Aug 20) that they had uncovered a cache of 120 gas canisters at a house believed to be the bomb-making factory of suspects in terror attacks that claimed 14 lives, as Barcelona mourned victims of the rampage.

Police uncover gas arsenal at bomb factory as Barcelona mourns

SINGAPORE: A rescue operation is under way for 10 sailors missing after a US destroyer collided with a tanker east of Singapore today (Aug 21), in the second accident involving an American warship in two months.

Ten sailors missing after US destroyer collision off Singapore

NETHERLANDS: Just behind The Hague’s sandy beaches under the dunes lie dozens of Nazi bunkers built during World War II which the Dutch are now dusting off to attract tourists and to help heal lingering scars.

Dusting off ‘painful’ bunkers

UNITED KINGDOM: Britain’s much-loved Big Ben will fall silent for four years from this week as conservation work is carried out on the famous 19th century bell in a clock tower next to the Houses of Parliament.

London’s Big Ben to fall silent for four years

Ancient city ready for rebirth

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Sunday 20 August 2017, 10:00AM

CAMBODIA: It has survived centuries of monsoon rains, a US bombing campaign and rampant looting.

13 dead in Barcelona van carnage, ‘terrorists’ killed in another incident

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Friday 18 August 2017, 08:29AM

SPAIN: A van driver ploughed into crowds of pedestrians on Barcelona’s most popular street in broad daylight yesterday (Aug 17), killing 13 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

At least 37 die in jail riot in southern Venezuela

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Thursday 17 August 2017, 08:34AM

VENEZUELA: At least 37 people died in an hours-long jail riot in Venezuela’s southern state of Amazonas, officials said yesterday (Aug 16).

312 dead as mudslides, flooding sweep through Sierra Leone capital

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Tuesday 15 August 2017, 09:26AM

SIERRA LEONE: At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless yesterday (Aug 14) when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city’s morgues.

Poles revive the ancient tradition of timber floating

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Sunday 13 August 2017, 02:00PM

POLAND: A group of Poles have assembled tree trunks into a long raft and are streaming down the country’s longest river, the Vistula, to revive the ancient tradition of timber floating.

You’re never too old to code

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Sunday 13 August 2017, 11:00AM

JAPAN: When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working she still used an abacus for maths – today she is one of the world’s oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly.

ID cards issued for Rastafarian community

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Saturday 12 August 2017, 03:00PM

ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia’s foreign ministry said last week that it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians, granting rights to a community that has long complained of living in limbo in their “promised land”.

Elephants, tigers kill one human a day in India

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Saturday 12 August 2017, 11:00AM

INDIA: Endangered elephants and tigers are killing one person a day in India as humans put a growing squeeze on their habitat, according to new government figures.

Tough talk by Trump and Kim raises risks of war

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Saturday 12 August 2017, 10:53AM

Bill Richardson, the US politician and diplomat who has spent years quelling crises with North Korea, says President Donald Trump and Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's increasingly unrestrained verbal provocations raise the risk that a small security accident could lead to war.

At least 36 killed in China bus crash: state media

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Friday 11 August 2017, 09:14AM

CHINA: At least 36 people were killed and 13 injured when a bus slammed into a tunnel wall on an expressway in northern China, state media said today (Aug 11).

Thais in demand at Indian sex-massage parlours

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Thursday 10 August 2017, 09:40AM

INDIA: The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country’s sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said yesterday (Aug 9).

Suspect arrested after car rams Paris anti-terror troops

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Thursday 10 August 2017, 09:17AM

FRANCE: French police shot and arrested a suspect in a dramatic motorway chase yesterday (Aug 9) after a car smashed into soldiers outside a barracks in a Paris suburb, injuring six.

Manhunt after Paris car ramming of anti-terror soldiers

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Wednesday 9 August 2017, 05:47PM

FRANCE: French security forces launched a manhunt today (Aug 9) after a car rammed into anti-terrorism soldiers outside their barracks in a Paris suburb, injuring six.

Nine dead in China quake but toll expected to climb

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Wednesday 9 August 2017, 08:56AM

CHINA: At least nine people were killed when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern China, state media said today (Aug 9), but the toll was expected to climb as news trickles out of the remote mountainous region.

Afghanistan’s stolen boys: ‘Bachas’, former child sex slaves trying to find freedom of sorts

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Sunday 6 August 2017, 01:00PM

AFGHANISTAN: Adorned in make-up, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy.

Blaze rips through Dubai skyscraper ‘The Torch’

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Friday 4 August 2017, 08:20AM

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Panicked residents fled one of the tallest towers in Dubai early today (Aug 4) after a fire ripped through it, the second blaze to hit the skyscraper in as many years.

US hits ‘dictator’ Maduro with sanctions over disputed Venezuela vote

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Tuesday 1 August 2017, 09:44AM

VENEZUELA: The United States hit Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with direct sanctions yesterday (July 31) over a disputed and deadly weekend vote that, while consolidating his power, has largely isolated him as the “dictator” of a failing petro-state.

Two dead, four wounded in M16 shooting at German nightclub

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Monday 31 July 2017, 10:01AM

GERMANY: A Kurdish Iraqi man armed with an M16 automatic rifle opened fire in a packed nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday (July 30) after a dispute there, killing a bouncer and wounding four people before being shot by police.

Havaianas: corruption and all

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Sunday 30 July 2017, 02:00PM

BRAZIL: You’d be hard pressed to find an item more representative of Brazil than Havaianas: those brand-name flip-flops adopted by just about every inhabitant, rich or poor, as well as tourists seduced by the beach vibe.

'Urban explorers' time-travel through Berlin's lost places

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Sunday 30 July 2017, 01:00PM

With its deserted bunkers, abandoned barracks and ghostly hospital ruins, Berlin is a magnet for urban explorers who seek out abandoned places and time-travel through the German capital's Cold War past.

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