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Obama imposes new North Korea sanctions

The legislation hits North Korea with more stringent sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme President Obama has signed off new expanded sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear programme, weeks after it launched a long-range rocket.   The country has refused to stop its nuclear programme and the bill was easily passed last week by Congress.   The sanctions attempt ...

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Ghana bus crash kills at least 71

The number of people killed when a bus crashed into a truck in northern Ghana has risen to 71, medical officials say. The Metro Mass Transit coach reportedly collided head-on with a cargo truck carrying tomatoes near the town of Kintampo on Wednesday evening. Regional police chief Maxwell Atingane told Reuters news agency that many passengers died at the scene. ...

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South Korean military helicopter crashes, killing 3 soldiers

The wreckage of a South Korean army’s helicopter in Chuncheon, South Korea.  A South Korean military helicopter crashed in an eastern province today, killing three of the four soldiers on board, officials said. The helicopter went down in a farming field in the city of Chuncheon in the eastern province of Gangwon during a checkout flight, defense and army officials ...

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Paris attacks a failure of intelligence, ISIS may attack United States: CIA Director

The Paris terror attacks in November that killed 130 people were an intelligence failure, America’s top spymaster has said, warning that the ISIS is planning an attack on the US. “Paris was a failure of intelligence. All but one of the eight terrorists were French citizens, trained by ISIS in Syria. They returned, unnoticed, and attacked six locations killing 130 ...

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Cliff collapses as 5.7-magnitude quake rocks New Zealand

A cliff near New Zealand city of Christchurch collapsed on Sunday after a 5.7-magnitude quake struck the South Island city. The New Zealand government’s GeoNet monitoring service said the moderate quake was centred 15 km east of the city at a depth of 15 km, Xinhua reported. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the temblor at 5.8 with ...

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Saudi Arabia shoots down scud missile fired from Yemen

 The Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen says the kingdom has shot down a Scud missile fired from Yemen. The coalition said in a statement carried today by the official Saudi Press Agency said Saudi air defenses intercepted the missile as it headed toward the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. The statement says the missile was completed destroyed without ...

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Syria conflict: Turkey shells Kurdish militia

Turkey has shelled a Kurdish militia in northern Syria and demanded it retreat from territory it has seized, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. The US urged Turkey to stop the shelling and focus on fighting the group Islamic State (IS). Meanwhile Turkey’s foreign minister said Turkey was mulling a ground invasion of Syria with Saudi forces. On Thursday world powers ...

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Cuba returns ‘wrongly shipped’ US missile

Cuba returned to the United States an inert Hellfire missile that had been wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014. The missile, which did not contain explosives, had been shipped to Spain for a Nato training exercise, the Wall Street Journal said. It was then taken to Germany and eventually to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for onward delivery ...

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Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town of Bad Aibling

At least nine people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria. The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km (37 miles) south-east of Munich. The trains’ operator said both trains had partially derailed and were wedged into each other. Emergency teams, some winched in ...

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Hong Kong clashes as police clear food stalls

Over 90 people have been injured, and 54 arrested, following clashes in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district, police say. Violence erupted overnight as police cleared illegal food stalls set up on a busy junction for Lunar New Year celebrations. Angry protesters threw bricks and bottles at police, while police used batons and pepper spray and fired two warning shots into ...

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