Saturday, December 29, 2018

Hanover airport closed after man drives car onto apron area

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Hanover airport suspended flights on Saturday after a man drove onto the apron area before police stopped his car and overpowered him, they said.


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Russia, Turkey discuss coordination in Syria after U.S. withdrawal

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Foreign and defense ministers from Russia and Turkey discussed coordination between their forces in Syria after the United States' decision to withdraw troops from the Arab republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday.


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Florida school shooting: New video shows 'blunders'

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A media investigation using new footage alleges officials were underprepared for the Parkland attack.

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Airport shut after car driven near runway

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Hanover airport is currently closed after car was driven through a gate and onto the tarmac near a runway.

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Capt Lou Rudd is first Briton to cross Antarctic unaided

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An Army officer has become the second person ever to trek unaided across Antarctica, after American Colin O'Brady completed the trip two days earlier.

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DR Congo election candidates refuse to back code of conduct

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There are concerns over violence ahead of Sunday's vote in Africa's second-largest country.

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Indian miners: Navy divers deployed in rescue bid

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High-power pumps arrive at a flooded "rat-hole" mine where 15 workers were trapped 16 days ago.

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Brazil's president-elect plans decree allowing wider gun ownership

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Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday he plans to issue a decree allowing all Brazilians without criminal records to own firearms, welcome news to many core supporters who want him to loosen Brazil's strict gun laws.


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Israeli gunfire kills a Gazan during border protests

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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during the latest of weekly protests along the border with Israel on Friday, Palestinian health officials said.


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Egyptian forces kill 40 suspected militants after tourist bus bombed

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Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday, a day after a bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed four people.


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A fact checker's guide to stopping fake news

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Five top tips from professional fact checker Maarten Schenk

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ICYMI: Bears, barrels and big bangs

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A panda takes frolicking to an art form - and some of the other stories you may have missed this week.

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Exclusive: For Bangladesh PM, authoritarian tag is "badge of honor", son says on poll eve

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina considers being called authoritarian by the western media a "badge of honor", the leader's son told Reuters on the eve of a national election on Sunday.


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France's "yellow vest" protests rumble on in quieter mood

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France's "yellow vest" demonstrators kept numerous roads across the country blocked on Saturday as groups of protesters gathered in city centers, but the anti-government backlash was more muted than in previous weeks.


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Cape Town race row erupts after 'black visitors cleared from beach'

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Demonstrators allege black beachgoers were asked to leave the area by private security guards.

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China court orders retrial for Canadian jailed for drug smuggling

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A Chinese court ordered a retrial of a Canadian citizen on drug smuggling charges on Saturday after prosecutors said his sentence of 15 years was too light - a case that could further test relations between Beijing and Ottawa.


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Turkey, Russia have common aim to clear Syria of terror organizations - Anadolu

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Turkey and Russia have the common aim of clearing Syria of all terror organizations, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday following a meeting with Russian officials in Moscow, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.


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New Year's Eve party in Times Square to cheer for press freedom

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Reporters will be the guests of honor at the New Year's Eve party in New York's Times Square on Monday, in what organizers said was a celebration of press freedom after an unusually deadly year for journalists at U.S. news outlets.


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Abdullah Hassan, two-year-old boy in travel-ban row, dies in US

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Abdullah Hassan's mother, a Yemeni national, fought a high-profile battle to see her dying son.

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Moscow dismisses Franco-German statement on Ukrainian sailors

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Russia on Saturday dismissed a statement by the leaders of France and Germany accusing it of using military force and carrying out illegitimate checks on Ukrainian vessels in the Black Sea.


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Russia, Turkey to discuss U.S. withdrawal from Syria in Moscow - RIA

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Foreign and defence ministers from Russia and Turkey will discuss in Moscow the United States' decision to withdraw troops from Syria, Russian news agency RIA reported on Saturday, citing Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.


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Egypt police 'kill 40 militants' after bus attack

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The raids follow Friday's deadly tourist bus bombing near the Giza pyramids.

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Bre Payton, US conservative news writer, dies at 26

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Bre Payton wrote for The Federalist and appeared on major TV networks such as Fox and the BBC.

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Kremlin says Russia will deal with Ukrainian sailors according to Russian law - RIA

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Moscow will deal with the capture of Ukrainian sailors in the Azov Sea in accordance with Russian law, while acknowledging German Chancellor Angela Merkel's position, the Russian news agency RIA quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying on Saturday.


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