BEIJING – Six people have been hospitalized and hundreds of firefighters deployed to battle a blaze sparked by an explosion at a plant in southern China that produces the toxic chemical paraxylene. Authorities say there have been no chemical leaks due to the blast Monday evening at the Goure PX …
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AMSTERDAM – A Dutch train driver held in captivity for more than three years by Islamic militants has expressed his gratitude to the French troops who liberated him this week in northern Mali. In a written statement released Thursday by the Dutch foreign ministry, Sjaak Rijke says he is in …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters swarmed over Afghan army posts in the country’s northeast, killing at least 18 soldiers and beheading some in a major attack to mark the start of the country’s summer fighting season, authorities said Monday. The assault marks a grim first summer battle for Afghan forces, …
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MOSCOW – A former ally of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been found shot to death in his home in Kiev. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Oleg Kalashnikov, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, was found dead Wednesday evening. It said the he had died of gunshot wounds …
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CANBERRA, Australia – A refugee advocate says five asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Iran have agreed to be among the first to leave the Pacific island nation of Nauru for Cambodia under a deal that allows refugees rejected by Australia to be resettled in the Southeast Asian country. …
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TISDALE, Saskatchewan – A woman and three children have been killed in a small community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and police say the suspect is also dead. Police said Wednesday they received a call Tuesday that a family from Tisdale hadn’t been heard from all day and couldn’t …
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KATHMANDU, Nepal – 8.45 a.m. (0300 GMT) Nepal’s Deputy Inspector General of Police Komal Singh Bam says at least 3,218 people have been confirmed killed in Saturday’s earthquake. So far 18 people have also been confirmed dead in an avalanche that swept through the Mount Everest base camp in the …
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BAMAKO, Mali – A resident and an official said that gunmen killed at least three people in an attack on a village in Mali’s north. A resident of Goundam, 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Timbuktu, said the attackers shot and killed the head of the national guard, his deputy …
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CAIRO – A prosecutor in Egypt’s Nile Delta says he has referred 40 people to trial on charges of belonging to the Islamic State group and planning to carry out terrorist attacks. Bilal Abu Khadra, a prosecutor in Egypt’s Sharqiya province, said Sunday that those charged communicated with Islamic State …
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LISBON, Portugal – A cell phone text message is straining relations between the two parties in Portugal’s coalition government, which plan to stand together in a general election later this year. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, in a new biography published late Tuesday, spills some secrets about the tough times …
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