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    Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric
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    Bombing at Kabul mosque kills 10, including prominent cleric

    Kabul, Aug 18: A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27, an eyewitness and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to...
    Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet
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    Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

    Tehran, Aug 13: Iranians reacted with praise and worry on Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death. It remains unclear why Rushdie's attacker, identified by police as Hadi...
    China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan
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    China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

    Beijing, Aug 10: China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to their highest level in years. The statement issued by the Cabinet's Taiwan...
    Issey Miyake, known for bold sculpted designs, dies at 84
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    Issey Miyake, known for bold sculpted designs, dies at 84

    Tokyo, Aug 10: Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan's biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted pleated pieces as well as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' black turtlenecks, has died. He was 84. Miyake died last Friday of liver cancer, the Miyake Design Office said Tuesday. ...
    China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan
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    China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

    Beijing, Aug 10: China on Wednesday reaffirmed its threat to use military force to bring self-governing Taiwan under its control, amid threatening Chinese military exercises that have raised tensions between the sides to their highest level in years. The statement issued by the Cabinet's Taiwan...
    Taiwan holds drills, says China seeks control of seas
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    Taiwan holds drills, says China seeks control of seas

    Pingtung (Taiwan), Aug 9: Taiwan's foreign minister said Tuesday that China is using military drills to rehearse an invasion of the self-governing island democracy, while Taiwan's military began its own live-fire exercises in a show of readiness to thwart off a potential attack. Joseph Wu said...
    Israeli airstrike kills 2nd top Islamic Jihad commander
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    Israeli airstrike kills 2nd top Islamic Jihad commander

    Gaza City (Gaza Strip), Aug 7: An Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander in the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, the fighters said on Sunday, their second leader to be slain amid an escalating cross-border conflict. The killing late Saturday of Khaled Mansour, who led the...
    Taiwan says China military drills appear to simulate attack
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    Taiwan says China military drills appear to simulate attack

    Beijing, Aug 6: Taiwan said Saturday that China's military drills appear to simulate an attack on the self-ruled island, after multiple Chinese warships and aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan's armed forces issued an alert, dispatched air and naval patrols around the...
    UN nuclear chief: Ukraine nuclear plant is
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    UN nuclear chief: Ukraine nuclear plant is 'out of control'

    United Nations, Aug 3: The UN nuclear chief warned that Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine "is completely out of control" and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilise the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. ...
    World one step from
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    World one step from 'nuclear annihilation,' UN chief warns

    United Nations, Aug 2: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded the alarm over the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East, and other tensions, warning that "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation." The warning came Monday as...
    Inflation hits record 8.9% in 19 countries using the Euro
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    Inflation hits record 8.9% in 19 countries using the Euro

    Brussels, Jul 29: Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to another record in July, pushed by higher energy prices driven partly by Russia's war in Ukraine. Annual inflation in the eurozone's 19 countries rose to 8.9% in July, an increase from 8.6% in June, according...
    Russia, Ukraine trade missile strikes on war
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    Russia, Ukraine trade missile strikes on war's 150th day

    Kyiv, Jul 23: Russia's military fired a barrage of missiles Saturday at an airfield in central Ukraine, killing at least three people, while Ukrainian forces launched rocket strikes on river crossings in a Russian-occupied southern region. The attacks on key infrastructure on the 150th day of...
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