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Police in Vietnam have arrested the former head of the government office, Mai Tien Dung, on suspicion of abuse of power, the Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday, amid a widening anti-graft crackdown in the Southeast Asian country. The arrest of Dung, 65, is part of an investigation into
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Mexican authorities have located three bodies in the state of Baja California where one American and two Australian tourists were reported missing, the local prosecutor's office said in a statement late on Friday. Australian brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, and American Carter Rhoad, 30, were last
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A Sudanese asylum seeker in the UK has been told of his imminent deportation to Rwanda after attending a routine Home Office appointment, The Guardian reported. SOAS Detainee Support, an NGO, told the newspaper that the case is believed to be the first under the Rwanda scheme, which has received
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Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 179 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government said on Wednesday, as dozens more were killed in neighboring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure across the region.
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At least 19 people died when part of a highway collapsed in southern China's Guangdong province on Wednesday, state media reported. "The incident caused a total of 18 vehicles to become trapped... and involved 49 people, of whom 19 have been confirmed dead" as of 11:
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Eastern India experienced its hottest April on record as a heatwave scorched parts of the country amid a general election, killing at least nine people, and the weather office on Wednesday forecast above normal temperatures for May too. Searing heat has been cited by political analysts as one of the
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Turkish riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse May Day demonstrators trying to reach Istanbul's main Taksim Square on Wednesday, and Turkish media said dozens of protesters were detained. President Tayyip Erdogan said on the eve of May Day that Taksim Square, cordoned off by
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A teenage boy died on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police and two other people, in a street attack in east London, police said. The man used what appeared to be a Samurai-type sword in the Hainault district shortly before 7:00 am (0600
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King Charles III on Tuesday reportedly told fellow cancer patients “I’m well,” as he carried out his first official public engagement since being diagnosed with the condition. The British head of state appeared relaxed as he and his wife Queen Camilla met patients and staff at the University College
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Coast Guard units in Mahdia retrieved nine bodies from the sea on Monday, spokesman for the Mahdia and Monastir courts, Farid Ben Jha told TAP. He added that seven of the bodies, which were in a state of decomposition, were recovered off Chebba beach and two off Salakta beach. They
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Australia’s low-cost airline Bonza has suspended all flights amid concerns about the viability of its business, leaving potentially thousands of passengers stranded. The budget carrier, which launched in January last year, said on Tuesday that it had suspended all services for the day amid discussions about the “ongoing viability
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The Beirut Fire Department reported that its personnel extinguished a fire at a restaurant in the Bechara El Khoury area. It clarified that a gas leak led to an explosion in the restaurant, resulting in casualties including deaths and injuries. Preliminary information reported two injured individuals and 8 victims who
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The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to try to underpin a currency languishing at levels last seen over three decades ago. The dollar fell sharply to 155.01 yen from as high as 160.245 earlier in the day.
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The dam burst near Mai Mahiu in Nakuru county, washing away houses and cutting off a road, with rescuers digging through debris to find survivors. "Forty-two dead, it's a conservative estimate. There are still more in the mud, we are working on recovery," said Nakuru governor
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A Bangladeshi court ordered a nationwide shutdown of schools due to an ongoing heatwave, a day after they were reopened by the government. "The High Court bench of Justice Kamrul Kader and Justice Khizir Hayat passed a suo moto order closing all primary and secondary schools and madrasas until
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Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf resigned as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Monday and said he had ordered a contest be held to select a replacement. “I’ve concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the