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Daily Archives: Aug 1, 2014

Ebola virus has claimed 729 lives in four West African countries since February

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World Health Organization head Margaret Chan has said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it. The WHO director...
Helmut Kohl has won a legal battle to keep 200 tapes recording his political life

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Helmut Kohl has won a legal battle to keep 200 tapes recording his political life. A court in Cologne ruled against Helmut Kohl's former ghost-writer,...
Sadie doesn’t want her little brother to grow up

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The video of a 5-year-old girl crying uncontrollably because she doesn’t want her little brother to grow up has been viewed online over 14...
The circle in Raisting, upper Bavaria, has a diameter of 246ft and is formed of three rings

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Thousands of visitors have been attracted by a mysterious crop circle since it was spotted in a Bavarian wheat field last week. The circle in...
Dutch and Australian forensic experts have found human remains at the site of the flight MH17 crash in east Ukraine

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Dutch and Australian forensic experts have found human remains at the site of the flight MH17 crash in east Ukraine. They made their discovery on...
The US economy added 209,000 jobs in July bringing the unemployment rate to 6.2 percent

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The US economy added 209,000 jobs in July bringing the unemployment rate to 6.2%, latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown. The...
Israeli forces say one of its soldiers is believed captured, as a 72-hour truce with Hamas in Gaza collapsed just hours after it had begun

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Israeli forces say one of its soldiers is believed captured, as a 72-hour truce with Hamas in Gaza collapsed just hours after it had...
Joe Frazier beat Muhammad Ali by a unanimous decision to become the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion in 1971

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Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves worn during his 1971 fight with Joe Frazier have been sold at a Cleveland auction for $388,375. The boxing gloves have...
Russia has banned the imports of fruit and vegetables from Poland, depriving it of a major export market

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Russia has banned the imports of fruit and vegetables from Poland, depriving it of a major export market. Russia's food hygiene authorities said the imports...
Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his assault conviction

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Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his assault conviction, a spokesman for the Judicial Office says. The 84-year-old entertainer was jailed in...
Israel is resuming its operations in Gaza, saying Hamas broke planned 72-hour ceasefire just hours after it had begun

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Israel’s military is resuming its operations in Gaza, saying Hamas broke planned 72-hour ceasefire just hours after it had begun. The army said it had...
The worst Ebola outbreak in history has swept through West Africa, killing 729 people

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Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is preparing to receive a US aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa. The unnamed patient...
Siegfried Sassoon’s writing was inspired by his first-hand experience as a serving officer in the Great War

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Siegfried Sassoon’s war diaries are being published online for the first time. The archive of 23 journals and two notebooks of poetry have been digitized...
Prosecutors say Jonnie Williams gave Bob and Maureen McDonnell gifts and loans totaling $165,000

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Jonnie R. Williams, the key witness in a corruption trial of ex-Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen, has testified the former first...
The blasts rocked the city's Cianjhen district, scattering cars and blowing deep trenches in roads

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Several gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 25 people and injured 267 others, officials say. The blasts rocked the city's...
US Congress is kicking around the idea of replacing the dollar bill with dollar coins

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USD has been noticing a continued spike in the last week, especially so for the most traded pair EUR/USD. The rise of the USD...
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag arrived in New Hampshire on Thursday evening with her American husband and her children

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Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam, has arrived in the...