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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Blasts hit U.S. coalition base in Baghdad, damage unknown

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

Several blasts hit a U.S.-led coalition military base in Baghdad early on Sunday from an apparent rocket attack, a U.S. military official said.

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US election 2020: Could it be Bernie Sanders v Donald Trump?

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

If Bernie Sanders isn't the Democratic front-runner at this point, the word has little meaning.

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Swiss Crypto AG spying scandal shakes reputation for neutrality

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

The revelation that foreign intelligence used a Swiss company's devices for spying provokes outrage.

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'City of Women': A refuge for Colombia's displaced

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

Women displaced by Colombia's armed conflict created their own community to offer each other support.

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'Period-shaming' Indian college forces students to strip to underwear

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

Dozens of women were made to remove their knickers to prove they were not menstruating.

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Letter from Africa: 'Why I'm glad I left the UK to go home'

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

The food, the culture and the improving education systems outweigh the problems, says returnee Ade Daramy.

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Crossing Divides: The hostel promoting tourism to ease Israel's tensions

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

An Arab-Jewish-owned hostel caused controversy but is being held up as a symbol of change.

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Is Kenya going to run out of blood?

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

Kenya has had shortages of human blood in its hospitals - sometimes forcing relatives and friends to put out calls for people to donate

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Breathtaking images from the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

The awe-inspiring images came from 840 photographers from around the world.

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Lata Kare: The 68-year-old who ran to save her husband

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

Lata Kare did not know running was a sport - until an emergency forced her to think outside the box.

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Cruise firm seeks new virus test for passenger from ship in Cambodia

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

More tests are needed to confirm that an American passenger from a cruise ship docked in Cambodia has the new coronavirus after she tested positive in Malaysia, the MS Westerdam's operator said on Sunday.

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'Disown them:' Biden criticizes Sanders for supporters' online attacks

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 Reuters: U.S. Leave a Comment

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday criticized the conduct of online supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders, saying his rival for the Democratic nomination for president has "some accountability."

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North Korea's Kim makes first public appearance in 22 days amid virus outbreak

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 22 days amid an outbreak of coronavirus, state media reported on Saturday, to visit a national mausoleum and mark the anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il's birth.

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UK post-Brexit rules to 'turn off tap' of low-skilled foreign labor

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

Britain will "turn off the tap" of foreign, low-skilled labor and require all skilled workers wishing to come to the country to have a job offer and meet salary and language requirements as it sets post-Brexit rules from next year.

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The monk saving Timbuktu's treasures

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

Why is a Benedictine monk travelling to Mali to save Islamic texts?

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Why the world needs 'Instagrans'

By Umair Ahmed February 16, 2020 BBC News - World Leave a Comment

A new generation of influencers are making their mark on social media.

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Japanese man diagnosed with coronavirus after visiting Hawaii

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

Hawaii health authorities began a search on Friday for anyone who may have had close contact with a Japanese tourist who fell ill on the island of Oahu and tested positive for a new coronavirus soon after returning to his home country.

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China sees 2,641 new coronavirus cases, 143 deaths, as it struggles to slow spread

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

More than 2,600 new cases were confirmed from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, the National Health Commission said on Saturday, a day after people returning to the capital from holidays were ordered to quarantine themselves for 14 days to try to contain its spread.

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Chinese gymnasts pull out of World Cup in Australia due to coronavirus travel ban

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

The Chinese gymnastics team entered into next week's World Cup in Melbourne has pulled out due to Australian government travel restrictions put in place to limit the coronavirus outbreak, organizers said on Saturday.

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Peruvian LGBTQ couples call for marriage equality in symbolic wedding

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

LGBTQ couples in Peru took part in a symbolic wedding ceremony on Friday in an annual event aimed at calling for marriage equality in the conservative South American nation.

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Trump thanks Cambodia over ship in rare message to China-ally

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

U.S. President Donald Trump has thanked Cambodia for taking in the castaway cruise ship MS Westerdam in a rare message to a country that is one of China's closest allies and has often been at odds with Washington.

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Wandering ship becomes 'best cruise ever' despite coronavirus fears

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.

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Mexican demonstrators splash presidential palace red in protest over murder of women

By Umair Ahmed February 15, 2020 Reuters: World News Leave a Comment

Demonstrators graffitied the phrase "femicide state" in blood-red on Mexico's presidential palace on Friday, before marching under heavy rain to the offices of newspaper La Prensa to protest the publication of a gruesome image of a murder victim.