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  Knifeman kills mother, sister in Paris suburb attack

  Reuters . Paris | Updated at 03:56pm on August 23, 2018

  A knifeman killed his mother and sister in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Thursday and seriously wounded a third person, a French interior...

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  At least 10 dead in surge of white-water creek in Italy

  Reuters | Updated at 10:39am on August 21, 2018

  At least 10 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were hurled over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep...

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  Pope vows no more cover-ups on sexual abuse

  Reuters . Vatican City | Updated at 07:03pm on August 20, 2018

  Pope Francis, facing sexual abuse crises in several countries, wrote an unprecedented letter to all Catholics on Monday, asking each one of them to help...

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  Greece exits final bailout successfully : ESM

  Reuters | Updated at 10:38am on August 20, 2018

  Greece has successfully exited its final, three-year bailout programme, agreed in August 2015 to help it cope with the continued fallout from a debt crisis,...

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  Former UN chief Kofi Annan dies

  Agence France-Presse . Geneva | Updated at 04:37pm on August 18, 2018

  Former UN chief and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan died Saturday at the age of 80, prompting a barrage of tributes and condolences from around...

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  Meat-heavy low-carb diets can shorten lifespan: study

  Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 12:32am on August 18, 2018

  Middle-aged people who get roughly half their daily calories from carbohydrates live several years longer on average than those with meat-heavy low-carb diets, researchers reported...

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  Putin ready to meet Norht Korea's Kim at 'early date': KCNA

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 12:11pm on August 15, 2018

  Russian president Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘at an early date’, the North's state media reported Wednesday,...

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  Search for survivors after Italian motorway collapse kills 35

  Reuters | Updated at 11:14am on August 15, 2018

  Firefighters searched into the night on Tuesday for survivors and bodies amid the rubble of a motorway bridge that collapsed in the northern Italian port...

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  30 dead as highway bridge collapses in Italy

  Agence France-Presse . Genoa | Updated at 01:50am on August 15, 2018

  At least 30 people were killed on Tuesday when a giant motorway bridge collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa, with more feared dead in...

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  Suspected terror attack injures pedestrians outside UK parliament

  Agence France-Presse . London | Updated at 12:05am on August 15, 2018

  A car crashed into barriers outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a ‘number of pedestrians’ yards from where...