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Twelve militants including key Taliban commander killed in A...

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KABUL, May 29: A total of 12 militants including a Taliban key commander, Mullah Sadam, were killed in the eastern Wardak province on Wednesday, media reports said quoting Interior Ministry spokesman Nasratullah Rahimi.
May 29, 2019
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At least 17 dead, over 40 hospitalized in India's spurious l...

At least 17 dead, over 40 hospitalized in India's spurious liquor tragedy
NEW DELHI, May 29: At least 17 people died and 44 people were undergoing treatment in two hospitals following consumption of spurious liquor in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday.
May 29, 2019
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U.S. presidential hopeful Harris unveils plan to protect abo...

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Reuters, May 29:  Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris unveiled a new plan to protect abortion access on Tuesday, joining fellow White House hopefuls pushing back against Republican-backed state laws that restrict a woman’s right to end a pregnancy.
May 29, 2019
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Tornadoes leave trail of destruction across Ohio, Indiana

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BROOKVILLE, May 28: A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio overnight, packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another.
May 28, 2019
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North Koreans survive by paying bribes - U.N. report

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GENEVA, May 28: North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country, where corruption is “endemic” and repression rife, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday.
May 28, 2019
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Analysis: India’s Modi faces foreign pressures in 2nd term

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NEW DELHI, May 28: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a second term in office after responding to a suicide attack on Indian paramilitary forces in troubled Kashmir with an airstrike inside Pakistan, allowing him to turn voters’ attention away from the country’s highest unemployment rate in dec...
May 28, 2019
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'Education under fire' as attacks on Afghan schools jump, UN...

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KABUL, May 28: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan increased almost threefold last year, making it increasingly difficult to ensure an education for children in many parts of the country, the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF said on Tuesday.
May 28, 2019
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At least 40 inmates strangled to death in Amazon prison gang...

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SAO PAULO, May 28: At least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 dead the day before, authorities said.
May 28, 2019
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Knife-wielding man attacks schoolgirls in Japan, killing 2

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KAWASAKI, JAPAN, May 28: A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls waiting at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two and injuring 16 before killing himself, officials and media said.
May 28, 2019
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Austrian lawmakers vote Kurz's government out of office

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VIENNA, May 27: Austrian lawmakers voted conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government out of office on Monday, passing a motion of no confidence days after it became a caretaker administration in the wake of a video sting scandal.
May 27, 2019