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International
Australians flee homes as police investigate suspicious fires
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy started a bush fire and two teenage girls were questioned over another blaze in…
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International
No more burgers and coke? Climate fears hit meat, drink sales
BERLIN (Reuters) - Consumers worried about the environment are cutting their spending on meat and bottled drinks and trying to…
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International
Malaysia sends half a million face masks to haze-hit state, shuts schools
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia sent half a million face masks to the eastern state of Sarawak and closed more…
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Business
Alibaba set for ‘big challenge’ as flamboyant chairman Ma departs
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma will step down from the Chinese firm on Tuesday, leaving his handpicked…
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International
Climate groups call for SUVs to be banned
RANKFURT (Reuters) - Climate groups, including Greenpeace and Deutsche Umwelthilfe, called on Monday for sport-utility vehicles to be banned as…
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International
Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, minister says
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant…
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Featured
Pope says deforestation must be treated as a global threat
Pope Francis said on Saturday rapid deforestation and the loss of biodiversity in individual countries should not be treated as…
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Emergency
As desperation rises, thousands in Bahamas flee Dorian’s devastation
Thousands of people fled devastation in the Bahamas on Saturday as conditions grew increasingly desperate nearly a week after Hurricane…
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International
Robert Mugabe, guerrilla leader turned iron-fisted president, dead at 95
FILE PHOTO: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe watches a video presentation during SADC in Johannesburg By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters)…
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International
Bahamas hurricane survivors tell of children swept away; death toll reaches 30
Destroyed houses are seen in an aerial photograph after Hurricane Dorian on the island of Great Abaco, Bahamas September…
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