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Russian plane with 71 aboard crashes outside Moscow, no reports of survivors

A passenger aircraft with 71 on board crashed shortly after takeoff outside Moscow on Sunday and fragments of it have been found, Russian media reported.

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Russian plane with 71 aboard crashes outside Moscow, no reports of survivors

A passenger aircraft with 71 on board crashed shortly after takeoff outside Moscow on Sunday and fragments of it have been found, Russian media reported.

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Tolls rises in Bolivia Carnival blast: 8 dead, 40 injured

Police say eight people have now died from the explosion of a gas canister at a Bolivian Carnival parade, and the toll of injured has risen to at least 40.

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Russian media: Plane with 71 aboard crashes near Moscow

Russian news reports say a passenger airline has crashed in the Moscow region.

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UK's top diplomat meets Myanmar's Suu Kyi on Rohingya crisis

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to talk about the Southeast Asian nation's Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority and how almost 700,000 of ...

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UK official warns Oxfam to hand over all info on sex case

Britain has warned Oxfam that it may lose government funding if the anti-poverty charity doesn't hand over all the information it has about a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti by ...

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Demonstrators in Tehran mark anniversary of Islamic Revolution

Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The demonstration comes just weeks after anti-government protests ...

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Pakistani leading rights activist, Asma Jehangir, dies at 66

Asma Jehangir, one of Pakistan's prominent right activists and lawyers, has died of a heart attack in the eastern city of Lahore.

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Western envoys urge Kenya opposition to recognize Kenyatta

Eleven western envoys, including those from the U.S. and Britain, are urging Kenya's opposition leader to recognize President Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's legitimately elected ...

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Turkish military says another soldier killed in Syria

The Turkish military has announced the death of another soldier in Ankara's operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia in northern Syria.

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Police: Man with knife kills 1, injures 12 at Beijing mall

Police in Beijing say a 35-year-old man with a personal grievance attacked 13 people with a knife in a busy shopping mall in the city, killing one.

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6 dead in militant attack on Indian army base in Kashmir

Officials say at least five soldiers and one civilian have been killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir, as firing between soldiers and armed militants holed up inside an army camp ...

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