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  Up to eight feared dead in Marseille building collapse

  Agence France-Presse . Marseille | Updated at 05:58pm on November 06, 2018

  As many as eight people were feared dead Tuesday after two dilapidated apartment blocks collapsed in the southern French city of Marseille, where a first...

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  Brexit protesters form human chain outside Downing Street

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:00am on November 06, 2018

  Rights groups representing Britons living in Europe and EU citizens in Britain formed a human chain outside Downing Street on Monday, demanding the government guarantee...

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  New Caledonia votes on independence

  Reuters . Melbourne | Updated at 12:00am on November 05, 2018

  Queues formed at polling stations across New Caledonia on Sunday as the French archipelago in the South Pacific voted whether to become the world’s newest...

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  Merkel’s conservatives quarrel over party’s course

  Reuters . Berlin | Updated at 12:00am on November 05, 2018

  German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats argued on Sunday over whether they should return to a more conservative agenda once she steps down as party...

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  World leaders to mark WWI in France

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:00am on November 05, 2018

  French president Emmanuel Macron on Sunday kicks off a week of commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, which is...

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  Italian storms claim 18th life, 14 million trees

  Reuters . Milan | Updated at 11:04am on November 04, 2018

  Heavy rain and gales devastating parts of Italy have claimed two more lives, taking the overall death toll to at least 18, and laid waste...

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  Two stabbed at Sony Music HQ in London

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 01:58am on November 03, 2018

  Two people were stabbed at Sony Music’s offices in London on Friday and one person was arrested, British media reported, in an incident that police...

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  Russia slaps sanctions on Ukraine politicians, businesses

  Agence-France-Presse . Moscow | Updated at 02:07am on November 02, 2018

  Russia on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on hundreds of Ukrainian individuals and dozens of companies, in what it described as countermeasures for Kiev’s actions against...

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  Oceans heating faster than previously thought: study

  Agence-France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 02:04am on November 02, 2018

  The world’s oceans have absorbed 60 per cent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth...

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  Millions of disaster victims left hidden in the shadows: IFRC

  Reuters . London | Updated at 12:17am on November 01, 2018

  Humanitarians must actively seek out millions of people who are hit by crises like floods, earthquakes but are left ‘hidden in the shadows’ and without...