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Tourists taking pictures trampled by elephant in Zambia

LUSAKA: A Dutch and a Belgian tourist were trampled to death by an elephant in Zambia as they got too close to the animal when trying to take pictures, police said on Sunday. The holidaymakers ? whose identities have not been released ? were killed on Saturday while on safari at Maramba River Lodge in the tourist town of Livingstone. "A lady from Belgium aged 57 and a 64-year-old man from the Netherlands were killed as they went close to the elephant trying to take photographs," police spokes
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France frets over internal threat two years after Paris attacks

A French soldier stands guard under the Eiffel Tower ? as France officially ended a 'state of emergency' regime, replacing it with the introduction of a new security law ? in Paris, France, November 1, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Files PARIS: Two years after militants killed 130 people in coordinated attacks across Paris, French officials say there remains an unprecedented level of ?internal? threat from both within and outside the country. With Daesh losing ground in Iraq and Syria, hund
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Trump offers to mediate in South China Sea row

US President Donald Trump looks on during a special gala celebration dinner for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manila, Phillipines, November 12, 2017. AFP/Pool/Athit Perawongmetha MANILA: US President Donald Trump offered Sunday to mediate in a territorial dispute over the resource-rich South China Sea, after years of Chinese island-building in the contested waters. Trump's surprise proposal to insert himself into the decades-long row risked a backlash from China, which
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Man who ran over Chinese students charged with attempted murder

TOULOUSE: A man who deliberately rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, injuring three Chinese students, was Sunday charged with attempted murder and placed in temporary custody, a prosecutor said. The 28-year-old ? with a history of psychiatric problems ? appeared before a judge in the southern city of Toulouse who placed him in custody, prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau said, adding that the man maintained an initial claim that voices in his head sparked his action. The prosecutor had i
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Hariri warns Lebanon faces Arab sanctions risk, to return in days

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned, is seen during Future television interview, in a coffee shop in Beirut, Lebanon, November 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi1 BEIRUT: Saad al-Hariri warned on Sunday Lebanon was at risk of Gulf Arab sanctions because of Hezbollah?s regional meddling and said he would return to Lebanon within days to affirm he had resigned as the country?s prime minister. In a television interview, the Saudi-allied Hariri held out the possibility he could y
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Let's slap a public health warning on fossil fuels: Schwarzenegger

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger attends a promotional tour for the film "Terminator Genisys" in Shanghai, China, in this file photo taken August 19, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song/Files  BONN: Arnold Schwarzenegger ? the former California governor and Hollywood actor and film producer ? issued a challenge on Sunday to governments to start labelling fossil fuels with a public health warning that their use could cause illness and death. He lauded the World Health Organization (WHO) for sealing a 164-nation
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'Thor: Ragnarok' thunders to $56.6 million second weekend

(L-R) Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, and Mark Ruffalo at the world premiere of 'Thor: Ragnarok' in Los Angeles, California, US, November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni  LOS ANGELES (Variety.com): Showing plenty of staying power, Disney-Marvel?s Thor: Ragnarok is dominating the North American box office with $56.6 million at 4,080 locations in its second weekend. The figure give the third Thor movie the 29th highest second weeken
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Seven dead in concert attack, reprisals in Central African Republic

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) peacekeepers, Central African Republic, AFP  BANGUI: Seven people were killed and around 20 others were injured in a grenade attack on a peace concert and reprisal violence in Central African Republic?s capital, Bangui, on Saturday and Sunday, government officials and city residents said. The riverside city has in the past been a flashpoint for inter-religious violence that erupted betwe
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Saudi Arabia requests urgent Arab League meeting over Iran: Egypt media

Arab foreign ministers meet during a regular session to discuss latest developments in Middle Eastern affairs, in Cairo, Egypt, September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Files CAIRO: Saudi Arabia has called for an urgent meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo next week to discuss Iran?s intervention in the region, an official league source told Egypt?s MENA state news agency on Sunday. The call came after the resignation of Lebanon?s prime minister pushed Beirut back into the
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Spanish PM, in Catalonia, calls for big turnout at December election

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Catalan People´s Party (PP) president Xavier Garcia Albiol salute the crowd during a Catalan regional People´s Party meeting in Barcelona, Spain, November 12, 2017. REUTERS/Albert Gea  BARCELONA: Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged Catalans to turn out in force in a December election to ?restore normality? to a region buffeted by attempts to split from Spain. In his first visit to Barcelona since Madrid imposed direct rule on Catalonia and sacked its se
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Merkel urges compromises as coalition talks enter final stretch

Angela Merkel ? the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) ? arrives at the German Parliamentary Society offices before the start of exploratory talks about forming a new coalition government in Berlin, Germany, November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch  BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged party leaders negotiating a tricky three-way coalition government to show more willingness to compromise, as support for her conservative bloc plunged to the lowest level in more
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'Instagram president' wins Slovenia runoff

Image via Slovenian President Borut Pahor's Instagram account (@borutpahor) LJUBLJANA: Slovenia's internet-savvy President Borut Pahor on Sunday won the second term in a runoff vote that was marred by an abysmally low turnout. Centre-left ex-premier Pahor, 54, had been touted to win in October, but a record low 44-percent turnout triggered a repeat vote, with 1.7 million people called back to the ballot box. On Sunday, Pahor, who took 47.1 percent in the first round, garnered 53.1 percent of
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Federer leaves Sock standing in London opener

LONDON: Whatever else happens to Jack Sock at the ATP Finals this week, his between-the-legs volley at 4-4 in the second set of his debut match will feature in the end-of-tournament showreel. Trouble is Roger Federer was on the other side of the net and Sock?s magic moment proved in vain as the Swiss maestro spun a backhand winner past the stranded American. Sock, the first American to qualify for the ATP Finals since 2011, felt Federer?s winner owed a little to luck -- not that the world numb
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Up to 33 killed as DR Congo train carrying fuel derails

Image: Google Maps LUBUMBASHI: Up to 33 people were feared dead Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a freight train carrying fuel plunged into a ravine. The UN's radio Okapi spoke of 33 fatalities with others injured or burned in the accident that occurred in the sprawling mineral-rich province of Katanga, which is the size of Spain. "Up until now, the toll is eight dead and several injured. The toll could be significantly higher," Jean-Marie Tshizainga ? the minister of mines of
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Cristiano Ronaldo becomes father for fourth time

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo announced on Sunday that he had become a father for the fourth time after girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez gave birth to a baby girl, Alana Martina. "Alana Martina has just been born! Both Geo and Alana are doing great. We are all very happy," the beaming 32-year-old footballer wrote on Twitter, posting a photo of himself, Rodriguez, his seven-year-old son Cristiano Junior and the new arrival. Ronaldo is also the father of twins, Eva and Mateo, who were born in
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Trump to meet Philippines' controversial Duterte

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte leaves the opening ceremony of the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos, September 6, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/Files MANILA: US President Donald Trump sits down Monday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who boasts about personally killing people and is waging a drug war that rights groups say involves mass murder. The US president is in Manila ? the final leg of a headline-grabbing Asian tour dominated by the North Korean nuclear crisis ? with leaders
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Maduro says Venezuela will 'never' default on its massive debt

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during his weekly radio and TV broadcast 'Los Domingos con Maduro' (The Sundays with Maduro) in Caracas, Venezuela, November 12, 2017. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS  CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insisted on Sunday that his cash-strapped country would "never" default, as he prepared to meet with creditors in Caracas to discuss rescheduling part of the country's massive $150-billion debt. "Never, default will never reach Venezu
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UK foreign secretary says Hariri should return to Lebanon

Boris Johnson attends an informal meeting of European Union Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn, Estonia, September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/Files  BEIRUT: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sunday he hopes Saad al-Hariri returns to Beirut ?without further delay?. Last week, al-Hariri had announced ? from Saudi Arabia ? that he was resigning as the prime minister of Lebanon In a statement, Johnson said he had spoken with Lebanese foreign minister Gebran Bassil on Sunday a
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Sattar, Kamal facilitated MQM founder, alleges Merchant

KARACHI: Sarfraz Merchant, the central character in MQM money laundering case, has said that Farooq Sattar and Mustafa Kamal led facilitators in Pakistan of the London-based MQM founder. Speaking on Geo News programme 'Naya Pakistan', he said members from both the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) facilitate the MQM founder. Merchant, a former aide of the MQM founder, has also been accused of money-laundering by the Metropolitan Police and remained on pol
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Earthquake of 7.3 magnitude hits Iraq: USGS

LONDON: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck Iraq on Sunday, 103 kms (64 miles) southeast of the city of As-Sulaymaniyah, the US Geological Survey said. It initially said the quake was of a magnitude 7.2, before revising it to 7.3. Shocks were felt in several Iranian cities, with eight villages damaged and electricity cut in others, local media said.
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In demanding Hariri's return, Lebanese find rare unity

BEIRUT: A country long divided by conflicts, Lebanon has found a rare point of unity since Saad al-Hariri?s shock resignation as prime minister: Lebanese of all stripes want him to come back from Saudi Arabia and to continue his work as premier. Hariri left Beirut for Riyadh on Nov 3 and resigned the following day in a speech that caught even his closest aides off guard. He cited fear of assassination and blamed Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah for sowing strife in the Arab world. The Leb
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Controversial Da Vinci is New York auction season star

NEW YORK: What is the only Da Vinci painting on the open market worth? A Russian billionaire believes he was swindled when he bought it for $127.5 million. This week he´ll find out if he was right. "Salvator Mundi," a painting of Jesus Christ by the Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci circa 1500, is the star lot in New York´s November art auctions that will see Christie´s and Sotheby´s chase combined art sales of more than $1 billion. It goes under the hammer at Christie´s on Wednesday, som
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Trump and Vietnam's president underscore free and open access to South China Sea

Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang and U.S. President Donald Trump review troops before their bilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam November 12, 2017. Photo: REUTERS  US President Donald Trump and Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang underscored the importance of free and open access to South China Sea, in a joint statement issued on Sunday. The two leaders called for the ?full and effective implementation? of the declaration on the conduct of parties in the South China
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White truffles fetch 75,000 euros at Italian auction

White truffles fetch 75,000 euros at Italian auction. Photo: AFP ALBA: A lot of around 850 grammes (1.9 pounds) of white truffles was sold for 75,000 euros ($87,500) in a top Italian auction on Sunday. The buyer from Hong Kong placed their winning bid via satellite at the World Alba White Truffles Auction at the Grinzane Cavour castle in Piedmont, northwestern Italy. Isabelle Gianicolo of the National Truffle Study Centre noted that the auction price was "symbolic" and did not necessarily ref
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Would love to do movies with Shah Rukh, Akshay: Salman

Bollywood Dabangg Khan, Salman Khan, shared that his biggest hits have been multi-starrers and if given the chance he would love to do movies with other stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn. However, Salman added that he would only work with them if their characters are superb, reported Indian media. Comparing the industry to its olden days, he said that films were written before made the actors say yes without thinking much, which is not the case now. The
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