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December 23, 2019
16 inmates killed during latest prison riot in Honduras

At least 16 prisoners have died during fighting inside a juvenile detention centre in Honduras, just two days after rioting at another jail killed 18 inmates.

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December 23, 2019
16 inmates killed during latest prison riot in Honduras

At least 16 prisoners have died during fighting inside a juvenile detention centre in Honduras, just two days after rioting at another jail killed 18 inmates.

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December 23, 2019
16 inmates killed during latest prison riot in Honduras

At least 16 prisoners have died during fighting inside a juvenile detention centre in Honduras, just two days after rioting at another jail killed 18 inmates.

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December 23, 2019
Stalled talks with US ‘not good’ for Pyongyang, S. Korea tells China

Stalled denuclearization talks and a recent flare-up in tension between Washington and Pyongyang are not beneficial for Pyongyang, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing...

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December 23, 2019
Taliban attack kills US service member in Afghanistan amid renewed peace talks

An American service member in Afghanistan was killed in an attack carried out by the Taliban, the militant group has said. The Pentagon has confirmed the death, which coincides with...

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December 23, 2019
Australian PM defends government policy on climate change amid wildfire crisis

Australia's embattled prime minister has defended his government's climate policy, as authorities warned the wildfires crisis could fester for months.

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December 23, 2019
Australian PM defends government policy on climate change amid wildfire crisis

Australia's embattled prime minister has defended his government's climate policy, as authorities warned the wildfires crisis could fester for months.

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December 23, 2019
Chimps predisposed to music and like to boogie, study shows

Chimpanzees have a sense of rhythm and like to move to the beat, according to a new study.

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December 23, 2019
Company laying pipes for Nord Stream 2 withdraws vessels from Baltic Sea – report

Allseas, a Swiss-Dutch company that has been laying underwater tubes for the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline off the Danish coast, has withdrawn both of its pipelaying vessels from the...

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December 23, 2019
Morrison says climate change policy won’t change over fires

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government's climate policy will not change, despite the national fire crisis.

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December 23, 2019
Starliner’s perfect touchdown is consolation after ISS mission flop

Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert yesterday after an aborted test flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

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December 23, 2019
Morrison says climate change policy won’t change over fires

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government's climate policy will not change, despite the national fire crisis.

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December 23, 2019
13 injured in shooting at memorial party for gun victim

Thirteen people have been injured, four of them critically, in a shooting at a memorial party in Chicago.

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December 23, 2019
Banksy highlights conflict with his ‘Scar of Bethlehem’ nativity

Street artist Banksy has brought a sombre Christmas spirit to his hotel in Bethlehem, with a nativity scene evoking the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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December 23, 2019
Clashes erupt at rally as Chinese flag burnt in support of Uighurs

Clashes broke out yesterday between Hong Kong police and protesters at a rally in support of China's Uighur minority.

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December 23, 2019
Iraq on knife edge as protesters reject ‘pro-Iran’ al-Suhail

Thousands poured into the streets of Baghdad and Iraq's southern provinces yesterday to protest against a potential prime minister accused of being too close to Iran.

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December 23, 2019
Medicine man’s ritual stops ‘witch lynchings’

Officials in Kenya are turning to the methods of a legendary medicine man to halt an epidemic of "witch lynchings".

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December 23, 2019
Michael Sheils McNamee: ‘People are seeing maybe the solution is not peace’

'I was listening to a lot of punk and rock music at the time, being kind of a rebel, kind of an anarchist," says Juan David Molina, a former Farc...

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December 23, 2019
Clashes erupt at rally as Chinese flag burnt in support of Uighurs

Clashes broke out yesterday between Hong Kong police and protesters at a rally in support of China's Uighur minority.

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December 23, 2019
Morrison says climate change policy won’t change over fires

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government's climate policy will not change, despite the national fire crisis.

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December 23, 2019
Pelosi can’t hold out in stand-off over witnesses – White House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position in the impeachment process against Donald Trump, White House officials claimed yesterday.

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December 23, 2019
Michael Sheils McNamee: ‘People are seeing maybe the solution is not peace’

'I was listening to a lot of punk and rock music at the time, being kind of a rebel, kind of an anarchist," says Juan David Molina, a former Farc...

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December 23, 2019
Starliner’s perfect touchdown is consolation after ISS mission flop

Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert yesterday after an aborted test flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

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December 23, 2019
Morrison says climate change policy won’t change over fires

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government's climate policy will not change, despite the national fire crisis.

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December 23, 2019
Trump leaves governors to decide if states take refugees

An executive order by US President Donald Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position.

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December 23, 2019
Michael Sheils McNamee: ‘People are seeing maybe the solution is not peace’

'I was listening to a lot of punk and rock music at the time, being kind of a rebel, kind of an anarchist," says Juan David Molina, a former Farc...

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December 23, 2019
13 injured in shooting at memorial party for gun victim

Thirteen people have been injured, four of them critically, in a shooting at a memorial party in Chicago.

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December 23, 2019
Michael Sheils McNamee: ‘People are seeing maybe the solution is not peace’

'I was listening to a lot of punk and rock music at the time, being kind of a rebel, kind of an anarchist," says Juan David Molina, a former Farc...

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December 23, 2019
Pelosi can’t hold out in stand-off over witnesses – White House

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position in the impeachment process against Donald Trump, White House officials claimed yesterday.

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December 22, 2019
1 killed in attack by ‘extremist sectors of opposition’ on Venezuela’s army unit – Caracas

A Venezuelan army trooper has been killed in an attack on the military unit, carried out by “extremist sectors of the opposition” on Sunday morning, Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino...

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December 22, 2019
Israel allows Christians from Gaza to visit Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas

Christians from the Gaza Strip will be able to visit the holy cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas, after the Israeli authorities reversed their decision not to issue them...

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December 22, 2019
Thousands demonstrate and close roads in protest against new PM

Thousands of people took to the streets of central Beirut on Sunday to protest against the country's new prime minister, saying he should abandon the post because he is a...

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December 22, 2019
Nancy Pelosi put herself in untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against Trump – White House claims

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump, the White House is claiming.

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December 22, 2019
Nancy Pelosi put herself in untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against Trump – White House claims

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump, the White House is claiming.

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December 22, 2019
Nancy Pelosi put herself in untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against Trump – White House claims

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump, the White House is claiming.

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December 22, 2019
Egypt frees ex-general arrested after challenging president

The Egyptian military has released one of the country's former chiefs-of-staff nearly two years after his arrest, according to officials and his lawyer.

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December 22, 2019
Syrian troops push towards Turkish observation post

Syrian government forces were pushing deeper in their offensive on the last remaining rebel stronghold in the country's northwest on Sunday, opposition activists said.

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December 22, 2019
‘Hug your children and tell them how much you love them’ – mother of boy (13) killed in UK road crash

The mother of a 13-year-old boy killed as he crossed the road the weekend before Christmas has urged all parents to "go home and hug your children".

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December 22, 2019
White House predicts Pelosi will ‘yield’ on impeachment delay

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump, the White House is claiming.

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December 22, 2019
Wallaby captured after being found wild in Somerset

A female wallaby was captured by zoo staff after it was spotted roaming the fields of Somerset.

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