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    Death toll rises to 174 after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match
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    Death toll rises to 174 after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match

    Malang, Oct 2: The death toll from panic at an Indonesian soccer match climbed to 174, most of whom trampled to death after police fired tear gas to dispel riots Saturday, making it one of the deadliest sports events in the world. Riots broke out after the game ended Saturday evening with host...
    129 dead after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match
    International

    129 dead after fans stampede to exit Indonesian soccer match

    Malang (Indonesia), Oct 2: Panic at an Indonesian soccer match Saturday left 129 dead, most of whom were trampled to death after police fired tear gas to dispel riots, making it one of the deadliest sports events in the world. Riots broke out after the game ended Saturday evening with host Arema...
    Taliban official: Blast in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19
    International

    Taliban official: Blast in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19

    Kabul, Sep 30: A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief says 19 people were killed and 27 were wounded in a suicide bombing in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital. Khalid Zadran, the spokesman, says the explosion in the Dashti Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul took place on Friday...
    Kremlin: 4 regions of Ukraine to be folded in Russia on Friday
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    Kremlin: 4 regions of Ukraine to be folded in Russia on Friday

    Moscow, Sep 29: The Kremlin says that the four regions of Ukraine that held referendums on joining Russia will be incorporated into the country on Friday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony in the Kremlin at which they will be...
    Suu Kyi convicted again, Australian economist gets 3 years
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    Suu Kyi convicted again, Australian economist gets 3 years

    Bangkok, Sep 29: A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi in another criminal case Thursday and sentenced Australian economist Sean Turnell to three years in prison for violating Myanmar's official secrets act, a legal official said. Suu Kyi received a three-year...
    6 dead, 20 wounded in school shooting in Russia
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    6 dead, 20 wounded in school shooting in Russia

    Moscow, Sep 26: A gunman on Monday morning killed six people and wounded 20 others in a school in central Russia, local police said. Governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified shooter got into a school in Izhevsk, the region's...
    Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Tudor saga, dies at 70
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    Hilary Mantel, author of 'Wolf Hall' Tudor saga, dies at 70

    London, Sep 24: Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed "Wolf Hall" trilogy of historical novels, has died, her publisher said Friday. She was 70. Mantel died "suddenly yet peacefully" on Thursday surrounded by...
    Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match
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    Roger Federer retires after teaming with Nadal in last match

    London, Sep 24: This day, this match, had to come, of course, for Roger Federer, and for tennis, just as it inevitably must for every athlete in every sport. Federer bid adieu Friday night with one last contest before he heads into retirement at age 41 after a superlative career that spanned...
    Oscar-winning Cuckoos Nest actor Louise Fletcher dies
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    Oscar-winning 'Cuckoo's Nest' actor Louise Fletcher dies

    Los Angeles, Sept 24: Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88. Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by...
    Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive
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    Man missing for 17 days after Sichuan earthquake found alive

    Beijing, Sep 23: A man who was missing for 17 days after an earthquake in China's southwest Sichuan province has been found alive, according to local media reports. The 28-year-old hydropower station employee Gan Yu had stayed behind with his colleague Luo Yong after the magnitude-6.8 earthquake...
    Valery Polyakov, the man who took longest single trip to space, dies
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    Valery Polyakov, the man who took longest single trip to space, dies

    Moscow, Sep 19: Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia's space agency announced Monday. Polyakov's record of 437 days in space began January 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off on a two-day flight to the...
    Putin, Zelenskyy court major allies as Ukraine makes gains
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    Putin, Zelenskyy court major allies as Ukraine makes gains

    Kyiv, Sep 15: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are each courting major allies on Thursday, seeking to prop up their efforts in a war whose fortunes have tilted toward Ukraine in recent days. In Uzbekistan's ancient Samarkand, Putin was hoping to...
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