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• Rebels down Ukrainian jet ahead of talks

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  MiG-29 warplane blown out of the sky as Kiev and Moscow try to defuse tensions over fighting in […]

• HK pro-government activists rally against Occupy protest

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  HONG KONG: Thousands protested in Hong Kong yesterday against plans by pro-democracy activists to paralyse the city centre […]

• Pope pushes dialogue with Asian nations

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  HAEMI, South Korea: Pope Francis yesterday championed a ‘creative’ Catholicism in Asia that reflects the region’s diversity, and […]

• North Korea threatens ‘merciless’ strike against US-South Korea drill

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  SEOUL: North Korea warned yesterday of a possible ‘merciless’ pre-emptive strike as it blasted an upcoming joint US-South […]

• Trains carrying toxic chemicals collide in US, 2 dead

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  WASHINGTON: Two freight trains transporting toxic chemicals smashed into each other in the US state of Arkansas early […]

• Patients flee attack on Monrovia Ebola unit

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   | Monday - August 18th, 2014

  MONROVIA: Armed men claiming that “ there’s no Ebola” in Liberia raided a quarantine centre for the deadly […]

• Two UN peacekeepers killed in Mali suicide attack

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   | Sunday - August 17th, 2014

  MALI: Two United Nations peacekeepers, from Burkina Faso, were killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Mali, […]

• Australian PM urges Scots to stay in UK

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   | Sunday - August 17th, 2014

  LONDON: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Saturday (Aug 16) urged Scotland to stay in the United Kingdom, […]