Islamic State captures Syrian city of Palmyra
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Germanwings crash victims identified
Investigators looking into the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash in March announced on Wednesday that they had formally ide...
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Yingluck Shinawatra, former Thai prime minster begin...Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has begun her trial in Bangkok Tuesday for alleged negligence in a rice subsidy scheme. If convicted she could face up to ten years in jail. The subsidy scheme was designed to prop up rice prices by spending billions of dollars to acquire the crop at high rates over the market rates. It has been alleged by her p...
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France rejects European Union's asylum seeker quota ...ss="published">Monday, May 18, 2015 France Related articles 18 May 2015: France rejects European Union's asylum seeker quota initiative 9 May 2015: Copilot practiced putting plane into controlled descent prior to crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, French authorities say 11 April 2015: Foreigners evacuated from Yemen by India 29 March 2015: Officials say co...
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Jim Murphy announces resignation as Scottish Labour ...Source: Wikinews
Fatalities, multiple injuries in Texas tornadoA tornado tore through much of the town of Van, Texas late Sunday evening. Officials said over 40 people were transported to local hospitals for treatment and reportedly two people died during the storm. The National Weather Service estimated winds over 130 miles per hour (210 kilometres per hour) during the tornado. Late Monday afternoon, debris was still sc...
UK Independence Party reject leader's resignationSource: Wikinews
Copilot practiced putting plane into controlled dece...A report from French safety officials released on Wednesday said the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, practiced putting a plane into a controlled descent earlier in the day of the March 24 crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, which officials allege the co-pilot caused by a controlled descent. The report was based on data from the plane's flight recorders. According to ...
Conservatives win majority in 2015 UK general electionSource: Wikinews
Teen accused of Anzac Day terror plot applies for bailAn 18-year-old Victorian teen accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Anzac Day applied for bail at Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. It is alleged that Harun Causevic and his associate, Sedvdet Besim, also 18, planned to run down and behead a police officer before stealing his gun to harm others at Anzac Day services in Melbourne. Federal prosecut...
Indiana Governor signs needle exchange programIndiana Governor Mike Pence dropped his former opposition to needle exchange programs and on Tuesday signed legislation passed by lawmakers on April 29 — the last day of the state's legislative session — that would allow local health departments, municipalities, counties, or nonprofit organizations to implement needle exchange programs. The debate about the co...
New Zealand begins process to consider changing nati...The current New Zealand flag is partially based on the United Kingdom's flag; the new one would be unique to New Zealand. The government's Flag Consideration Project has planned a number of conferences and roadshows as part of this process, with the first meeting set to take place in Christchurch on May 16. According to the New Zealand Herald, Emeritus Profess...
Royal Birth: Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to bab...The announcement also said Catherine and the baby are "doing well." The daughter of the royal couple was said to weigh 8lbs 3oz. Earlier in the day Catherine was admitted in labour into the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London. Kensington Palace released a statement that the Duchess went to the hospital by car and was admitted into Saint Mary's at 6am ...
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Holocaust survivor publicly forgives 93-year-old Aus...On Friday, Eva Mozes Kor, a 81-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp survivor, publicly forgave and embraced 93-year-old former SS guard Oskar Gröning, who is currently on trial in Germany as accessory to 300,000 murders of Jews at Auschwitz. Kor, who was among many Jews medically experimented on at Auschwitz, has thanked Mr Gröning for answering to the crime...
UN publishes report on 2014 Gaza conflictOn Monday the UN published a summary of its report regarding the inquiry into incidents that had taken place last summer during the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced in November 2014 an inquiry would be made into ten incidents that took place in schools operated by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief ...
Over 10,000 attend Gallipoli dawn service for ANZAC ...A crowd of over 10,000 people attended the dawn service on Saturday at Gallipoli, Turkey for the 100th anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops there in 1915. The solemn remembrance ceremony was held at the site of the original Gallipoli landings, now known as Anzac Cove. The Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War is remembered as ...
Volcano erupts in southern ChileThe Calbuco volcano in Southern Chile erupted twice on Wednesday. It was the first major eruption of the volcano in over fifty years. The Chilean National Geology and Mining Service said the second eruption was more powerful than the first. By reports, the first eruption caused some regional panic. Emergency officials had very little time to alert local resid...
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