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Giant fire near Sydney may burn for weeks as people struggle to breathe
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A giant bushfire on the edge of Sydney, which has blanketed the city in smoke causing a…
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‘Indiana Jones’ scientists collect seeds in wild for climate change fight
LONDON (Reuters) - Braving perils from blood-sucking leeches to tigers and using transport as basic as elephants, scientists have journeyed…
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Earth’s temperature likely marks hottest decade on record – report
MADRID (Reuters) - The past decade is almost certain to be the hottest on record, weather experts warned on Tuesday,…
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Malta prime minister expected to quit in crisis over journalist murder
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has told associates he plans to resign over the political and legal…
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Sudan’s midwives told to stop genital mutilation on mothers after birth
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sudanese midwives must stop performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on new mothers, health experts said…
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Vietnam receives remains of all British truck victims
HANOI (Reuters) - The remains of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck near London last month have been…
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Police shoot London killer dead, call stabbings a terrorist attack
LONDON (Reuters) - British police on Friday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people…
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Pope Francis Calls To Do Away With Atomic Weapons
Pope Francis has appealed to world leaders to do away with the use of atomic bombs for good. The pope…
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‘She leaves him. He kills her.’ Thousands in Belgium march to demand end to violence against women
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Brussels on Sunday against violence targetting women, placing pairs of women's shoes…
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Media mogul Bloomberg enters U.S. presidential race, takes aim at Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of America's largest city, jumped into the race for…
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