Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Six to face trial over topless Kate Middleton photos and other top stories.

  • Six to face trial over topless Kate Middleton photos

    Six to face trial over topless Kate Middleton photos
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  • Calais Jungle clearance resumes, tents and shelters ablaze

    Calais Jungle clearance resumes, tents and shelters ablaze
    By Matthias Blamont | CALAIS, France CALAIS, France Migrants set more tents and shelters ablaze at the "Jungle" camp in Calais on Wednesday as others queued to be relocated and authorities resumed clearing the camp.Local opposition to the squalid and unsanitary camp which at one point housed more than 6,000 people, along with criticism from right-wing politicians, has stung the French government into launching a clearing operation which began on Monday.More than 4,000 migrants, who had come ..
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  • John Key meets Narendra Modi: Here's India-New Zealand joint statement

    John Key meets Narendra Modi: Here's India-New Zealand joint statement
    Here's the India-New Zealand joint statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs:At the invitation of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, undertook a state visit to India from 25-27 October, 2016. Prime Minister Key was accompanied on his visit by his wife, Bronagh Key, as well as a delegation comprising Parliamentarians; businesspeople from a range of sectors of bilateral significance, including innovation, technology and tourism; and repres..
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  • Islamic State kills dozens of civilians in Afghanistan

    Herat: Militants linked to Islamic State jihadists killed around 30 civilians, including children, in central Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, raising concerns about the group`s expanding presence beyond its eastern strongholds. The incident occurred late Tuesday north of Firoz Koh, the capital of Ghor province, with the local government calling it a revenge attack after a local IS commander was killed. "Our security forces with the help of locals conducted an operation and killed a Daesh..
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  • Gender Pay Equity Is Even Farther Than Originally Thought

    Gender Pay Equity Is Even Farther Than Originally Thought
    By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Efforts to close gender gaps in pay and workforce participation slowed so dramatically in the past year that men and women may not reach economic equality for another 170 years, the World Economic Forum said on Tuesday. Statistics just a year ago predicted the economic gap between genders could close in 118 years, but progress has decelerated, stalled or reversed in nations around the world, the Swiss non-profit WEF said in its annual ge..
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  • Police: Brazilian man allegedly held captive by family for at least 15 years

    Police: Brazilian man allegedly held captive by family for at least 15 years
    Cops in the city, which is in the greater Sao Paulo area, were on a drug raid Sunday evening when they entered a family home in error, discovering 36-year-old Armando Bezerra de Andrade in a filthy, stinking basement. Images of the room show a soiled mattress, padlocked windows and no light source. The door had no handle on the inside. His father, Armancio Bezerra de Andrade, said he kept his son in the basement because he was a drug user, and contradicted neighbors who said that the man had bee..
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  • Dreamworld accident: risk of theme park injury or death 'one in nine million'

    Dreamworld accident: risk of theme park injury or death 'one in nine million'
    Dreamworld accident: risk of theme park injury or death 'one in nine million' JOHN EDENS Millions of people who enjoy theme parks around the world take a risk during a thrill ride. Based on available figures, the risk is very low and a Dreamworld-style accident is not possible here because New Zealand does not have mechanical whitewater simulator rides. New Zealand does have rivers and lakes and its history of adventure tourism has its share of awf..
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  • British banker calmly details how he slit throats of two women in Hong Kon...

    British banker calmly details how he slit throats of two women in Hong Kon...
    By Farah Master | HONG KONG HONG KONG British banker Rurik Jutting calmly detailed to police his cocaine-fueled descent into a torture and killing binge that ended in the deaths of two Indonesian women in his luxury Hong Kong apartment, according to videos shown in court on Wednesday.The 31-year-old Cambridge graduate told police that six weeks after he started buying cocaine directly from a dealer, he was vastly indulging in the drug, as well as alcohol and paid sex.On the third day of his ..
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  • International Criminal Court: South Africa's Withdrawal

    International Criminal Court: South Africa's Withdrawal
    "South Africa's main opposition party on Monday tried to block a government plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, saying the move is illegal and that the country's top court should intervene. [...] Last week, South Africa notified the United Nations that it will withdraw from the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, alarming international human rights groups and raising fears of an African exodus from the court, which has more than 120 member states." (CTV News..
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  • 'Al-Shabab attack' on Kenyan town Mandera kills 12

    'Al-Shabab attack' on Kenyan town Mandera kills 12
    Image caption Those killed were staying in this guest house At least 12 people have been killed in an attack in Kenya claimed by Somalia-based militant Islamist group al-Shabab.The target was a guesthouse hosting members of a theatre group who were performing plays in schools in the north-eastern town of Mandera.Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has called the attack "heinous".In Somalia, the militants exploded a truck bomb near an African Union milita..
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