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  Pakistan oil tanker explosion : Death toll rises to 153

  Reuters | Updated at 11:03am on June 25, 2017

  An oil tanker crashed on a road in Pakistan on Sunday and 132 people, many of whom had rushed to collect leaking fuel, were killed when it...

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  At least 11 die in Colombia coal mine explosion

  Reuters | Updated at 09:35am on June 25, 2017

  At least eleven miners at an underground coal mine in Colombia have died and two remain missing after an explosion caused by methane gas, the government said on Saturday...

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  15 bodies found after landslide buries scores in China

  Associated Press | Updated at 09:05am on June 25, 2017

  Crews searching through the night in the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tons of soil and rocks in southwestern China found 15 bodies, but more than 100 more people remained missing...

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  Trumps attend wedding of treasury secretary and actress

  Associated Press | Updated at 09:20am on June 25, 2017

  President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were among the guests as treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-shin's) married a Scottish actress...

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  British lawmakers hit by ‘sustained’ cyber attack

  Reuters | Updated at 08:45am on June 25, 2017

  Britain's parliament was hit by a ‘sustained and determined’ cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service...

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  Trump accuses Obama of inaction on Russia

  BBC | Updated at 08:50am on June 25, 2017

  President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor Barack Obama of inaction over alleged Russian interference in the US election in 2016...

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  Suicide bomber targeting Makkah hurts six

  Agence France-Presse . Riyadh | Updated at 01:16am on June 25, 2017

  Six foreign pilgrims were hurt on Friday in Saudi Arabia when a suicide bomber targeting Islam’s holiest site of Makkah blew himself up, the interior ministry said...

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  Qatar says Saudi-led ultimatum unreasonable

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 01:14am on June 25, 2017

  Qatar on Saturday denounced a sweeping list of demands from Saudi Arabia and its allies in an escalating Gulf diplomatic crisis as unreasonable and an impingement on the emirate’s sovereignty...

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  Death toll in Pakistan attacks climbs to 61

  Associated Press | Updated at 03:13pm on June 24, 2017

  The death toll from twin blasts in the northwestern town of Parachinar climbed to 45 overnight, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks in Pakistan on Friday to 61, with several others in critical condition, officials said...

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  India mob kills Muslim teen in beef row, one arrested

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:50pm on June 24, 2017

  Indian police Saturday said one person has been arrested after a mob stabbed a Muslim teenager to death on suspicion of carrying beef, an offence in many parts of the Hindu-majority country...