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Thailand cave rescue: How would you survive in a cave? | 27 June 2018 | [
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"context": "A desperate search is under way for a group of 12 teenage footballers and their coach who are believed to be trapped deep inside a cave in Thailand. Heavy rain has flooded the cave system, hindering the authorities' attempts to go in and find them. The hope is that the group have found a safe, hig... |
Iran tanker row: Detained ship sets sail from Gibraltar | 19 August 2019 | [
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"context": "An Iranian ship held by Gibraltar since July on suspicion of transporting oil to Syria has left port. Marine tracking shows the tanker moving east into the Mediterranean and lists Kalamata in Greece as the destination. Gibraltar earlier rejected a request by the US to again seize the ship, which h... |
The rise of the word Brexit | 25 December 2016 | [
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"context": "It was the political word of 2016 - even before being repeatedly used by Donald Trump during his successful US presidential campaign. But Brexit was barely heard last time America elected a president in 2012. Here's the story of its rise to prominence. The Oxford English Dictionary awarded this ho... |
Syria crisis: Kofi Annan's Mission Impossible | 11 March 2012 | [
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"context": "As the special UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan embarked on what looked like a Mission Impossible that was unlikely to produce swift results, the way ahead in Syria was shrouded in the smoke of war. But amidst the many confusions and complexities, there were a few elements that could be taken as gi... |
Saad Lamjarred: Moroccan singer faces third rape charge | 28 August 2018 | [
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"context": "Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred will face a charge of rape following a complaint by a woman in southern France, officials say. On Tuesday he was placed under formal investigation over the alleged incident in a hotel in Saint-Tropez. The 33-year-old is already on bail over an alleged rape case datin... |
Uber loses licence to operate in London | 25 November 2019 | [
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"context": "Uber will not be granted a new licence to operate in London after repeated safety failures, Transport for London (TfL) has said. The regulator said the taxi app was not \"fit and proper\" as a licence holder, despite having made a number of positive changes to its operations. Uber initially lost i... |
NFL teams to be fined if players kneel during anthem | 23 May 2018 | [
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"context": "NFL teams will be fined if players kneel for the US national anthem under a new policy. The American football league said players who do not stand for the Star-Spangled Banner can stay in the locker room until it has been performed. The NFL also vowed to \"impose appropriate discipline on league p... |
Russian spy: Sergei Lavrov accuses West of 'children's games' | 2 April 2018 | [
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"context": "Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the UK and Western partners of playing \"children's games\" in their response to the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. He accused countries of \"disregarding all accepted behaviour\" and resorting to \"open lies and disinformati... |
Primera Air collapse: 'I don’t know what I’m going to do' | 2 October 2018 | [
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"context": "Passengers have been left stranded in airports around the world after the collapse of budget airline Primera Air. The airline started offering long-haul flights from UK airports earlier this year, including Stansted to the US. Flights to Washington and New York due to leave Stansted on Monday nigh... |
E-cigarettes can be key weapon against smoking, say MPs | 17 August 2018 | [
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"context": "Rules around e-cigarettes should be relaxed so they can be more widely used and accepted in society, says a report by MPs. Vaping is much less harmful than normal cigarettes and e-cigarettes should be made available on prescription to help more people quit smoking, it said. The report also asks th... |
Lobby group admits unlawful whistleblower dismissal | 12 November 2018 | [
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"context": "A major right-of-centre lobby group linked to a network of Brexit campaigners has admitted illegally sacking the whistleblower who first revealed allegations of unlawful referendum campaign spending. Shahmir Sanni was fired by the TaxPayers' Alliance after revealing his concerns that the official ... |
Iran unrest: New protests as Rouhani plays down violence | 2 January 2018 | [
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"context": "Protests in Iran continued late into Monday, despite the president saying that the unrest \"is nothing\". Anti-government chanting and burning cars were reported on the fifth day of unrest, while police said an officer was killed in a central city and others wounded. At least 13 people are believe... |
Tory leadership race: Five key moments from debate | 18 June 2019 | [
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"context": "Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid, Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart were grilled by members of the public in a live televised debate on BBC One, hosted by Emily Maitlis. Each of the candidates had made it through to the next stage of the Conservative Party leadership race earlier in the evening... |
Trump at odds with Republican lawmakers over gun reforms | 1 March 2018 | [
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"context": "US President Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers from both parties by accusing them of being \"petrified\" of the National Rifle Association (NRA). In a break from his party's anti-gun control stance, Mr Trump urged lawmakers during a televised meeting to come up with a \"strong\" reform bill. The ... |
Trump denies asking attorney general to clear him on Ukraine | 7 November 2019 | [
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"context": "US President Donald Trump has denied asking the justice department to clear him of wrongdoing over a phone call with Ukraine's president that is at the heart of an impeachment inquiry. US media say Attorney General William Barr declined Mr Trump's request to hold a press conference to declare no l... |
Webcams used to attack Reddit and Twitter recalled | 24 October 2016 | [
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"context": "Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US. Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks. They made access to popular websites, such as Reddit... |
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey transferred to London unit | 30 December 2014 | [
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"context": "A health worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone has arrived at a specialist treatment centre in London. Pauline Cafferkey, who flew to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow, was taken to the Royal Free Hospital. She is understood to have been flown t... |
Choe In-guk: Son of South Korean defectors 'moves' to the North | 8 July 2019 | [
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"context": "The son of high-profile South Korean defectors is reported to have moved to North Korea, in a rare case of someone seeking to settle in the dictatorship. Choe In-guk is the son of a South Korean ex-foreign minister who defected to the North with his wife in 1986. According to North Korean state me... |
US mid-terms: Rick Scott wins contested Florida Senate race | 18 November 2018 | [
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"context": "Florida's outgoing Republican Governor Rick Scott has declared victory in a contested Senate race in the state. The vote was subject to a recount after his lead in the 6 November ballot fell to less than 0.5%. The final result showed Mr Scott beat three-term incumbent Democrat Senator Bill Nelson ... |
People vs politicians: Who can tackle Mexico's corruption? | 22 March 2016 | [
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"context": "The disappearance of 43 students from Guerrero state in 2014 outraged Mexico, a nation already far too used to high levels of violence. Now, 18 months on, Mexicans are little wiser as to what happened that night. But one thing that is certain is the involvement of corrupt police in their disappear... |
Michael Flynn: Trump's national security adviser resigns | 14 February 2017 | [
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"context": "US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has resigned over allegations he discussed US sanctions with Russia before Donald Trump took office. Mr Flynn is said to have misled officials about his call with Russia's ambassador before his own appointment. It is illegal for private citizens to conduc... |
Impeachment: Democrats undoing 2016 election, say Trump lawyers | 25 January 2020 | [
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"context": "President Trump's lawyers have begun defending him at his impeachment trial, accusing Democrats of seeking to overturn the result of the 2016 election. \"The president did absolutely nothing wrong,\" White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said. Mr Trump's defence will last three days and follows the De... |
International outcry over Istanbul election re-run | 7 May 2019 | [
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"context": "The EU and leading member states have sharply criticised a decision in Turkey to re-run Istanbul's mayoral election, after a shock opposition win. An EU spokesperson called on Turkey's electoral body to explain the controversial decision \"without delay\". Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Mass cal... |
Reality Check: Did government keep Grenfell rehousing promise? | 4 July 2017 | [
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"context": "The claim: Every person made homeless by the Grenfell fire will receive an offer of accommodation by Wednesday, 5 July. Reality Check verdict: Council officials say offers of temporary accommodation have been made to 139 of 158 households and the remaining 19 households did not want any contact wi... |
Trump faces backlash over possible $1.3bn ZTE fine | 22 May 2018 | [
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"context": "US President Donald Trump has said he may lift a crippling export ban on Chinese technology firm ZTE and levy a $1.3bn fine instead. His willingness to strike a deal has stirred controversy in the US, where the company has raised alarms related to national security. Mr Trump said the current penal... |
Kashmir in lockdown after autonomy scrapped | 6 August 2019 | [
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"context": "Indian-administered Kashmir remains locked down a day after it was stripped of a status that gave it significant autonomy from the rest of India. Telephone networks and the internet, which were cut off on Sunday evening, are yet to be restored and tens of thousands of troops are patrolling the str... |
Facebook scandal: Who is selling your personal data? | 11 July 2018 | [
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"context": "Offering handy parenting tips and PS200 worth of vouchers, Emma's Diary may have seemed like the perfect website for new parents to sign up to. But in exchange for free nappies, they also gave consent for their data to be used for a mix of advertising purposes. It has now emerged that the data was... |
#TeamTrees: YouTube stars boost tree-planting campaign to over $8m | 30 October 2019 | [
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"context": "A global tree-planting campaign led by YouTube stars has seen more than $8m (PS6.2m) raised in just five days. Beauty YouTuber Jeffree Star and US entrepreneur Elon Musk are among those to have donated. The \"Team Trees\" project is aiming to plant 20 million trees around the globe by 2020, with e... |
Laos dam collapse: Many feared dead as floods hit villages | 24 July 2018 | [
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"context": "At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 are missing in flooding following the collapse of an under-construction dam in south-east Laos. Workers found the hydroelectric dam in Attapeu province was partially damaged on Sunday, and villagers living nearby were evacuated. The dam collaps... |
Trump Paris jibe: Mayor uses Mickey Mouse to fight back | 26 February 2017 | [
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"context": "Paris's mayor has hit back at US President Donald Trump's negative remarks about the city, using Walt Disney characters. Anne Hidalgo tweeted a picture of herself with Mickey and Minnie Mouse celebrating the city's \"dynamism and spirit of openness\". At a speech to conservative activists, Mr Trum... |
SOS! Will Abba's new music live up to their legacy? | 28 April 2018 | [
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"context": "It's hard to imagine now but, once upon a time, people hated Abba. Those spangly satin jumpsuits, their Eurovision origins, the wedding disco ubiquity of Dancing Queen - they all conspired to consign Abba to the cheesy-smelling scrapheap of pop. The band were frequently misunderstood as kitsch be... |
Myanmar: What sparked latest violence in Rakhine? | 19 September 2017 | [
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"context": "A fresh outbreak of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state has caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya civilians to flee to Bangladesh. The exodus began on 25 August after Rohingya militants attacked police posts, killing 12 members of the security forces. Those attacks led to a security crackdown. ... |
Rocky question: Would you buy a synthetic diamond? | 21 October 2015 | [
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"context": "Picture this, you're about to splash out on a diamond that has costs thousands. It's expensive because it comes from a mine where it has lain undiscovered for centuries. An alternative is to choose a slightly cheaper and virtually identical one created inside a laboratory in just a few short weeks... |
The diets cutting one in five lives short every year | 4 April 2019 | [
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"context": "The food we eat is putting 11 million of us into an early grave each year, an influential study shows. The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. Salt - whether in bread, soy sauce or processed ... |
Bolivian army chief urges Morales to step down | 10 November 2019 | [
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"context": "The army chief in Bolivia has urged President Evo Morales to step down amid protests stemming from his disputed re-election last month. The call comes hours after Mr Morales agreed to call a new election after international monitors called for the result to be annulled. The Organization of America... |
Afghanistan presidential election: Ghani set for second term after initial results | 22 December 2019 | [
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"context": "Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appears set to win a second term, after preliminary election results showed he was on course to win a narrow majority. He secured 50.64% of the vote in the September 28 election, officials said. The initial results were delayed amid protests and allegations of fraud. ... |
Typhoon Hagibis: Japan suffers deadly floods and landslides from storm | 13 October 2019 | [
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"context": "At least nine people are reported dead as Japan recovers from its biggest storm in decades. Typhoon Hagibis triggered floods and landslides as it battered the country with wind speeds of 225km/h (140mph). Rivers have breached their banks in at least 14 different places, inundating residential neig... |
Chemnitz protests: Germany to probe leak of stabbing suspect | 30 August 2018 | [
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"context": "Germany is investigating who leaked an arrest warrant for an Iraqi suspect in a stabbing case to far-right groups, a case that triggered violent protests. Thousands joined a far-right rally in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Sunday after the fatal stabbing. The unauthorised disclosure has increase... |
India court legalises gay sex in landmark ruling | 6 September 2018 | [
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"context": "In a historic decision, India's Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence. The ruling overturns a 2013 judgement that upheld a colonial-era law, known as section 377, under which gay sex is categorised as an \"unnatural offence\". The court has now ruled discrimination o... |
What can New Zealand teach us about Brexit? | 16 December 2018 | [
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"context": "Brexit is, to put it mildly, an unusual event. But there are precedents for some aspects of it. New Zealand provides one example. The country faced a sudden, adverse change in access to a key export market when the UK joined the European Economic Community (EEC), as it was then, in 1973. When coun... |
Yemen crisis: Why is there a war? | 10 February 2020 | [
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"context": "Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, has been devastated by a civil war. Here we explain what is fuelling the fighting, and who is involved. The conflict has its roots in the failure of a political transition supposed to bring stability to Yemen following an Arab Spring uprising that ... |
Dinosaur bone: Scientists uncover giant femur in France | 26 July 2019 | [
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"context": "Scientists in south-western France have uncovered a giant dinosaur thigh bone at an excavation site that has been yielding fossils for nearly a decade. Two metres (6.6ft) long, the femur found at Angeac is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, a plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck and tail. S... |
Will Narendra Modi be India's Thatcher? | 27 February 2015 | [
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"context": "India's Narendra Modi-led BJP government will unveil its first full-year budget on Saturday. The budget is seen as a key test of Mr Modi's appetite for reform. The BBC's new South Asia correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, asks how far he is likely to go to stimulate growth and provide jobs. Expectations... |
Iran cancels accreditation of IAEA nuclear inspector | 7 November 2019 | [
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"context": "Iran has cancelled the accreditation of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector who was prevented from entering a nuclear facility last week. It said the woman triggered an alarm at the gate to the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, raising fears that she was carrying \"suspicious mat... |
Iran protests: Why is there unrest? | 2 January 2018 | [
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"context": "People have taken to the streets in cities across Iran to protest against economic hardship and political repression. The demonstrations are the biggest in the country since 2009, when millions demanded the re-run of a disputed presidential election. Demonstrations started in Iran's second city of... |
Russia spy poisoning: What happens when you expel a diplomat? | 17 March 2018 | [
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"context": "Russia has decided to expel 23 UK diplomats, in a tit-for-tat response to the UK's expulsion of 23 of its diplomats. The British government announced plans to expel the Russian diplomats as part of its response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack. But why do countries expel diplomats? And what hap... |
Turkey's Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin' | 17 October 2019 | [
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"context": "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put US President Donald Trump's letter \"in the bin\", the BBC has been told. In the letter dated 9 October, and sent after US troops were pulled out of Syria, Mr Trump told Mr Erdogan: \"Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!\" President Trump was urging Tur... |
YouTube shooting: Female suspect 'angry over video postings' | 4 April 2018 | [
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"context": "The suspect in a gun attack at YouTube's HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, media reports say. Police have named Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect but say they are still investigating a motive. US media say Aghdam was angry that YouTube was filtering her ... |
Spain PM Mariano Rajoy faces defeat in Friday no-confidence vote | 1 June 2018 | [
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"context": "Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is set to be forced out of office in a motion of no confidence. On Friday he congratulated Socialist Party leader Pedro Sanchez, who will become prime minister after the ballot. Mr Sanchez, who needs 176 votes, filed the no-confidence motion after Mr Rajoy's Pe... |
Sri Lanka attacks: Death toll revised down by 'about 100' | 26 April 2019 | [
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"context": "Sri Lanka has revised down the death toll from last Sunday's wave of bombings by more than 100, to \"about 253\", the health ministry says. It blamed a calculation error and the difficulty of identifying victims. Scores were killed and hundreds injured when suicide bombers struck hotels and church... |
Rio 2016: Does the Chinese public have a victim narrative? | 12 August 2016 | [
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"context": "One week into the Olympic Games and Chinese patriots have a lot of complaints. A brief shortlist might start with judges biased against Chinese athletes. In all Rio venues, the points of the gold stars on the Chinese national flag were misaligned. On one occasion where a Chinese and US athlete dre... |
Sterling’s had a weedy day – and it’s not all down to Boris Johnson | 22 February 2016 | [
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"context": "Sterling is trading at a seven-year low against the dollar. Cue klaxons warning of increased currency and market volatility as Britain starts on the four month journey to a referendum on whether to remain in or leave the European Union. To an extent sterling's weedy day is down to markets \"pricin... |
Libya crisis: UN warns attacks on civilians may amount to war crimes | 9 April 2019 | [
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"context": "UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has warned that attacks on civilians in Libya could amount to war crimes. She urged all sides to avoid bloodshed as military strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces advance on the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. Some 47 people have been killed over the past t... |
Dutch asylum row: Armenian children face expulsion | 4 September 2018 | [
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"context": "Two Armenian children who have spent most of their lives in the Netherlands face imminent deportation after emerging from hiding following a failed asylum plea. Howick, 13, and his sister Lily, 12, came to the Netherlands with their mother in 2008. Their mother was deported last year and the child... |
Brazil's rising tide of young conservatives seeks change | 2 April 2018 | [
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"context": "Sara Winter has always had strong views. As an activist, she used to chain herself to fences in protest at chauvinism and sexual violence. She was, by her own admission, one of the most high-profile feminists in Brazil. Sara is certainly striking. She has peroxide blonde hair, tattoos and a snappy... |
WHO backs 'treat-all' HIV drug plan | 30 September 2015 | [
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"context": "Everyone who has HIV should be offered antiretroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis, the World Health Organisation says. This latest policy removes previous limits suggesting patients wait until the disease progresses. The WHO has also recommended people at risk of HIV be given the dru... |
Brazil jail violence: Forty killed in Manaus prisons | 28 May 2019 | [
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"context": "Forty inmates have been found dead at four separate prisons in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state in northern Brazil. All the bodies, which were found during routine inspections, showed signs of asphyxiation, officials said. Monday's violence came a day after 15 prisoners were killed in jail cl... |
Thailand cave rescue: Tham Luang reopens to tourists | 1 November 2019 | [
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"context": "Tourists have entered Thailand's Tham Luang cave for the first time since the dramatic rescue last year of 12 boys and their football coach. Some 2,000 visitors flocked to the cave on Friday, hoping to be among the first to enter, the Bangkok Post reports. The Wild Boars youth team caught the worl... |
UN bans 4 ships from global ports for violating N Korea sanctions | 11 October 2017 | [
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"context": "The United Nations has banned four ships from visiting any global port, after they were found to have violated sanctions imposed on North Korea. Hugh Griffiths, head of a UN panel on North Korean sanctions, said the ships had been \"transporting prohibited goods\". He described the move to ban the... |
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