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[Graphic News] 68% of world population will live in urban areas by 2050: UN

Sixty-eight percent of the world‘s population will live in urban areas by the year 2050, the United Nation said Wednesday, up from the current 55 percent. The UN report predicted an extra 2.5 bill...

May 20, 2018
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School bus torn apart in dump truck collision, killing 2

MOUNT OLIVE, New Jersey -- A school bus taking children on a field trip to a historic site collided with a dump truck on Thursday, ripping the bus apart and killing a student and a teacher. The cras...

May 18, 2018
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Judge tosses California law allowing life-ending drugs

Betsy Davis threw herself a party before becoming one of the first people to use a California law allowing her to take her own life in 2016. Her sister and other advocates fear others won't have the...

May 16, 2018
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[Graphic News] Seoul ranks 10th best city for university students

South Korean capital Seoul has been named the 10th best city in the world for university students, according to a report from the QS Best Student Cities Ranking. London overtook last year’s top-pl...

May 16, 2018
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[Graphic News] China's Xi Jinping is world's most powerful person

Chinese President Xi Jinping has emerged as the world's most powerful person, according to Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful people. Russian President Vladimir Putin ranked second, while U...

May 14, 2018
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At least two dead, 13 injured in Indonesia church attacks: police

At least two people were killed and 13 others injured in bomb attacks, including a suicide blast, targeting churches in Indonesia's second biggest city Surabaya, police said Sunday, the latest assaul...

May 13, 2018
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Royal Wedding: 'Black Beverly Hills' pumped for its princess

In the upscale Los Angeles community known as the "Black Beverly Hills" where Meghan Markle's mother lives, the neighbors are delighting in the frenzy around the upcoming Royal Wedding. "This has pr...

May 13, 2018
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First China-made aircraft carrier starts sea trials: state media

China's first domestically manufactured aircraft carrier started sea trials on Sunday, state media said, as the country prepares to add a second such warship to its naval fleet. The carrier, known o...

May 13, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Terror probe launched after deadly Paris knife attack

A knifeman shouting "Allahu akbar" was shot dead by police in central Paris late Saturday after he killed one person and injured four, prompting a terror probe. The attack took place near the city's...

May 13, 2018
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Japan’s Abe accepts China invite, but no date set

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he had been formally invited to visit China and would do so at “an appropriate time”, as the regional powers try to warm ties. Chinese premier Li Keq...

May 9, 2018
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[Feature] Rohingya refugees hesitant to return to Rakhine state

Bangladesh, overburdened, urges refugees to go back to Myanmar ahead of monsoon season

May 9, 2018
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[Video] Stay or go? Volcano forces choice for all in eruption zone

Edwin Montoya's family carved their farm on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano out of "raw jungle," transforming it into a fertile collection of gardens, animal pens and fruit trees. Now the property...

May 9, 2018
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Putin sworn in for 4th term as Russian president

MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s president for a fourth term on Monday, extending his almost two-decade rule by another six years at a time of high tension with his Western rivals. ...

May 8, 2018
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Hawaii volcano shoots lava into sky, evacuations ordered

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, sending lava shooting into the air in a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes. Hawaii County said steam and l...

May 4, 2018
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Macron’s talk of ‘new’ deal with Iran may not, in fact, be new

WASHINGTON -- French President Emmanuel Macron‘s talk this week of a “new deal with Iran” may not, in fact, represent anything new nor a deal with Iran. Macron, followed by German Chancellor Angela ...

Apr 29, 2018
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