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January 11, 2020
Iran’s supreme leader offers condolences after passenger plane shot down

Iran's supreme leader has offered condolences and called for an investigation after his country's armed forces acknowledged that they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.

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January 11, 2020
Iran’s supreme leader offers condolences after passenger plane shot down

Iran's supreme leader has offered condolences and called for an investigation after his country's armed forces acknowledged that they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.

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January 11, 2020
Iran’s supreme leader offers condolences after passenger plane shot down

Iran's supreme leader has offered condolences and called for an investigation after his country's armed forces acknowledged that they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.

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January 11, 2020
Iran’s Khamenei orders immediate and full probe after Tehran admitted downing of Ukrainian plane

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has offered condolences and called for an investigation after Tehran's armed forces acknowledged that they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane. "The Islamic...

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January 11, 2020
European airlines advised to avoid Iranian airspace until further notice after Ukrainian aircraft shot down earlier this week

European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Saturday following Iran's admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian...

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January 11, 2020
European airlines advised to avoid Iranian airspace until further notice after Ukrainian aircraft shot down earlier this week

European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Saturday following Iran's admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian...

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January 11, 2020
Iran admits unintentionally shooting down Ukrainian, killing 176

Iran has admitted unintentionally shooting down the Ukrainian aircraft which crashed near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.

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January 11, 2020
European airlines advised to avoid Iranian airspace until further notice after Ukrainian aircraft shot down earlier this week

European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Saturday following Iran's admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian...

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January 11, 2020
European airlines advised to avoid Iranian airspace until further notice after Ukrainian aircraft shot down earlier this week

European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Saturday following Iran's admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian...

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January 11, 2020
European airlines advised to avoid Iranian airspace until further notice after Ukrainian aircraft shot down earlier this week

European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Saturday following Iran's admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian...

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January 11, 2020
Iran admits unintentionally shooting down Ukrainian aircraft, killing 176

Iran has admitted unintentionally shooting down the Ukrainian aircraft which crashed near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.

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January 11, 2020
Iran says it ‘unintentionally’ shot down Ukrainian jetliner

Iran has announced its military unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 aboard.

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January 11, 2020
China reports first death from pneumonia caused by new type of coronavirus

Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus.

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January 11, 2020
China reports first death from pneumonia caused by new type of coronavirus

Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus.

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January 11, 2020
Taiwan votes with future of its democracy on the line

The future of Taiwan's democracy is on the line as the self-ruled island's 19 million voters decide on whether to give independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen a second term.

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January 11, 2020
Democrats to send articles of impeachment to the Senate amid standoff

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday the House will take steps next week to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, ending Democrats' blockade of US President Donald Trump's Senate...

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January 11, 2020
Harry and Meghan will drive hard bargain as they plan celebrity route to riches

Prince Harry is hoping to be reunited with his wife and son in Canada with a clear resolution to their current crisis.

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January 11, 2020
Woman posed as teen boy to trick girls into sexual contact

A young British woman who posed as a teenage boy to deceive potentially dozens of girls into having sexual contact with her was jailed for eight years yesterday.

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January 11, 2020
Iraqi PM demands US plan to pull out troops

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for troop withdrawal from the country.

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January 11, 2020
Harry and Meghan will drive hard bargain as they plan celebrity route to riches

Prince Harry is hoping to be reunited with his wife and son in Canada with a clear resolution to their current crisis.

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January 11, 2020
Couple will drive hard bargain as they plan celebrity route to riches

Prince Harry is hoping to be reunited with his wife and son in Canada with a clear resolution to their current crisis.

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January 11, 2020
Queen orders that row over Harry and Meghan’s future be solved in 72 hours

Queen Elizabeth has ordered that the row over the future roles of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle be resolved within the next 72 hours amid speculation that Harry...

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January 11, 2020
Iraqi PM demands US plan to pull out troops

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for troop withdrawal from the country.

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January 11, 2020
Iran says it’ll analyse black box from jet tragedy itself

Iran said yesterday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was...

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January 11, 2020
Democrats to send articles of impeachment to the Senate amid standoff

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday the House will take steps next week to send articles of impeachment to the Senate, ending Democrats' blockade of US President Donald Trump's Senate...

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January 11, 2020
Macron defies striking unions over retirement age in reforms

France's government defied trade unions yesterday by including a contested clause on raising the retirement age by two years in its draft legislation, amid signs that weeks of street protests...

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January 11, 2020
Iran says it’ll analyse black box from jet tragedy itself

Iran said yesterday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was...

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January 11, 2020
Democrats bid to control armed action after Soleimani killing

The US House of Representatives has voted to stop President Donald Trump from taking additional military action against Iran.

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January 11, 2020
Democrats bid to control armed action after Soleimani killing

The US House of Representatives has voted to stop President Donald Trump from taking additional military action against Iran.

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January 11, 2020
Iraqi PM demands US plan to pull out troops

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for troop withdrawal from the country.

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January 11, 2020
Iran says it’ll analyse black box from jet tragedy itself

Iran said yesterday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was...

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January 11, 2020
Iraqi PM demands US plan to pull out troops

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has asked the United States to send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for troop withdrawal from the country.

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January 11, 2020
Woman posed as teen boy to trick girls into sexual contact

A young British woman who posed as a teenage boy to deceive potentially dozens of girls into having sexual contact with her was jailed for eight years yesterday.

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January 11, 2020
‘Doonbeg not a target for Iran revenge attack’

Donald Trump's Doonbeg Hotel and Shannon Airport are not being targeted for revenge attacks, the Iranian ambassador to Ireland has said.

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January 11, 2020
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said has died, state media reports

Oman's ruler, the British-educated Sultan Qaboos bin Said, has died, state media has reported.

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January 11, 2020
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said has died, state media reports

Oman's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, has died, state media has reported.

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January 11, 2020
‘Highly inappropriate’ – US rebuffs extradition request in connection with death of Harry Dunn

The United States rejected a formal request from Britain for the extradition of a U.S. diplomat's wife who left the country last year after a road collision that killed 19-year-old...

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January 10, 2020
Nasa intern helps to discover new planet in first week at organisation

A school student interning at Nasa helped to discover a planet with two stars, the agency has announced.

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January 10, 2020
Ukraine says terror or missile strike are likely causes of Iran plane crash

Ukraine's national security service says it is now considering two possible causes of the Ukrainian airliner disaster in Iran that killed 176 people.

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January 10, 2020
Ukraine says terror or missile strike are likely causes of Iran plane crash

Ukraine's national security service says it is now considering two possible causes of the Ukrainian airliner disaster in Iran that killed 176 people.

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