An airline employee makes an unauthorised take-off before crashing into an island.
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Saturday, August 11, 2018
Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial
A US jury finds the company knew its Roundup weedkillers were dangerous, but Monsanto vows to appeal.
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German police save man from baby squirrel terror
Officers respond to a call saying the animal was chasing a man down the street in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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California wildfires: Thousands evacuated as Lake Elsinore threatened
Evacuation orders for 21,000 residents in Orange County are issued as flames threaten homes.
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Romanian police clash with anti-government protesters
Police use tear gas and pepper spray against tens of thousands of anti-corruption protesters.
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Trump doubles metal tariffs on Turkey as lira falls by 20%
Turkey's currency falls 20% as the US leader announces a doubling of metal tariffs on the Nato ally.
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China Uighurs: One million held in political camps, UN told
A million ethnic Uighurs may be being held in "re-education centres", a UN rights panel has heard.
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Yemen war: Saudis to probe air strike child deaths
At least 29 children died in the air strike on a bus in a Houthi rebel stronghold in Yemen.
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Zimbabwe election: Inauguration delayed after result challenged
Sunday's ceremony is halted after the opposition files a legal challenge against the election result.
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Body of one of Italian Mont Blanc climbing trio found
Rescuers find the remains of Luca Lombardini, 31, but his fiancée and brother are still missing.
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Manushi Chhillar is using her fame to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene
Manushi Chhillar is using her fame to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene
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ICYMI: High speed logging and art comes alive
From professional loggers to paragliding grannies, here are some stories you may have missed this week.
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South China Sea: 'Leave immediately and keep far off'
A BBC team flew over the disputed South China Sea islands in a US military plane.
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Trump, his in-laws and chain migration
The first lady's parents became US citizens through a process the president has vowed to end.
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Head teacher busted sitting student's exam
Burundian Benjamin Manirambona wore a blue uniform to try to blend in with the schoolchildren.
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Kanye West stumped by Jimmy Kimmel's Donald Trump question
The rapper is lost for words when asked why he thinks the US president cares about black people.
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Cows allowed to visit Swedish nudist beaches in heatwave
The Swedish government is allowing farmers in the south to bring their cows to the beaches because of the roasting summer heat.
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Charlottesville: Why one man is suing Alex Jones for defamation
Brennan Gilmore's life was turned upside down after the Charlottesville attack. Now he's fighting back.
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The man who wants to be the new Oprah
He's a rapper, media mogul and presenter. Oh yeah, and he was married to Mariah Carey. But fame at a young age means Nick Cannon wants to catch up on one thing - an education.
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South Africa risks 'Zimbabwe-style land chaos'
President Cyril Ramaphosa is backing a plan to allow land to be taken by the state without compensation.
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Refugee, activist and champion of Syrian cuisine
A woman in exile discovers that cooking for strangers is a way into their hearts.
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Turkey's lira crisis explained
The Turkish currency has nosedived since January and, unsurprisingly, tourists are taking advantage.
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How God is Healing the Wounds of War in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Hundreds of thousands of people from South Sudan have fled to the Bidi Bidi Refuge Settlement in Uganda to escape their country's ongoing brutal civil war. Here victims and their victimizers find healing through faith in Christ.
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What Ever Happened to Aideen Strandsson: Christian Asylum Seeker Finds True Love While Still in Limbo
A Iranian Christian, whose possible deportation to Iran by the Swedish government made international headlines, has married.
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Thousands Petition for Release of Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Arrested for 'Promoting Christianity'
More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for the release of jailed Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. He's been reportedly sentenced to ten years in a prison notorious for persecuting Christians. Pastor Nadarkhani was also sentenced to two extra years of "internal exile" for allegedly "promoting Zionist Christianity."
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'How Could It Ever Be Harmful to Tell Someone About Jesus?' Nurse Wins Two-Year Fight for Her Job
A nurse in Great Britain who was dismissed from her nursing job for talking to patients about Jesus now has her full rights to practice nursing restored.
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Friday, August 10, 2018
Tennessee executes man for 1985 rape, murder of seven-year-old girl
Tennessee conducted its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday, administering a lethal injection to a man convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl he was babysitting.
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Mechanic becomes latest person killed in California fires
A mechanic helping to fight one of several major wildfires in California was killed in a traffic collision on Thursday, bringing the death toll from that blaze to eight, officials said.
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Florida school shooting families want board removed
A group of parents whose children were killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting on Thursday called for their school district board to be ousted for failing to ensure security before students return to classes next week.
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Brooklyn imam dismayed by family's tragedy at New Mexico compound
A prominent New York City Muslim cleric said on Thursday that he was baffled by events leading to his grandson's presumed death and the arrest of his son and four other adult relatives on charges of abusing children at a compound in New Mexico.
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U.S. reunions of immigrant families grind to a near halt
The number of immigrant children in U.S. care who have still not been reunited with their families after being separated at the Mexican border has barely budged in the past week, as the government struggles to locate parents no longer in the United States.
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New Mexico compound girls briefly reunited with grandfather
Two girls who were among 11 children taken from a New Mexico compound raided last week by police were briefly reunited on Thursday with their grandfather, who said that with their parents in jail he wanted to take them to his home in Egypt.
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U.S. census citizenship question panned by scientists, civil rights groups
As the U.S. government closed a public comment period on Wednesday on its plans for the 2020 census, scientists, philanthropists and civil rights groups used the occasion to again criticize plans to include a question about U.S. citizenship.
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Judge orders migrants returned to U.S. in midst of deportation flight
A federal judge on Thursday ordered an immigrant mother and daughter brought back to the United States after learning during a court hearing that the government had put them on a deportation flight to El Salvador.
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U.S. appeals court orders EPA to ban pesticide said to harm children
A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban a widely-used pesticide that critics say can endanger children and farmers.
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Oklahoma teen who killed parents, siblings gets life in prison
An Oklahoma judge sentenced a 19-year-old on Thursday to five consecutive life terms after he was convicted of joining his older brother in bludgeoning and stabbing their parents and three siblings to death in 2015, court documents showed.
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Science Applications International wins $597 million U.S. defense contract: Pentagon
Science Applications International Corp has been awarded a $597 million U.S. defense contract for the production and delivery of integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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Mechanic killed in road accident while fighting Carr Fire in California
A heavy equipment mechanic working for California fire authorities and assigned to the Carr wildfire was killed on Thursday as a result of traffic accident, officials said, bringing the death toll from that blaze to eight.
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After disaster alert failures, U.S. moves toward national system
In California last month, two young children and their great-grandmother died in a wildfire that family members say they never saw coming.
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