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CNN
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Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said. The group included two children, ages 8 and 14, Dmitry Eskin of Russia's Emergency Situations M..
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CNN
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A fire at an illegal shoe factory in southeastern China killed 37 people and injured more than a dozen others, authorities said Monday.
The blaze started Sunday night in a workshop making shoe uppers and burned more than 520 square meters (about 5,560..
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BBC News
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The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl.
Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing put over the reacto..
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CBC
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A Canadian man suspected of helping to finance Islamist terrorist activities has been arrested by Spanish authorities as part of a continuing U.S. FBI investigation, authorities said Monday.
Brian David Anderson, 61, was arrested by Spanish police on M..
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Yahoo News
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An animal lover was mauled to death by cheetahs after entering their cage at a zoo in northern Belgium, authorities and zoo officials said Monday. Karen Aerts, 37, of Antwerp, was found dead in the cage, Olmense Zoo spokesman Jan Libot said. Police sai..
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Nature.com
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The Allianoi archaeological site could soon be under water if authorities carry out their plans to flood a newly constructed reservoir. Located in western Turkey, the site is a well-preserved example of an ancient Roman health spa...
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Newsday
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It was one of the most serious cases of smuggling of nuclear material in recent years: A Russian man, authorities allege, tried to sell a small amount of nuclear-bomb grade uranium in a plastic bag in his jacket pocket...
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Northwest Florida Daily News
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Authorities found traces of radiation on two British Airways 767 jetliners Wednesday as investigators widened their search for clues into the poisoning death of former Russian spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko...
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unmadeinchina.org
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China earthquake, terrible disaster, there is a mistery about it? What is happened? What can we think?..
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BBC News
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Authorities in an Australian town have rejected proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there.
Councillors for Camden, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, unanimously voted against the proposed school for 1200 pupils.
The councillors s..
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MSNBC
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A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.
Seventy people were in critical cond..
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CNN
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The highest active volcano in Colombia erupted Monday night, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of up to 15,000 people. The Nevado del Huila volcano erupted at 11:08 p.m. Monday (12:08 a.m. Tuesday ET), according to the Colombian Institute of G..
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BBC News
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Chinese authorities closed down 44,000 websites and arrested 868 people last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media has reported.
Another 1,911 people received unspecified penalties for "pornography activities", Xinhua news agency..
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BBC News
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The French government says it will ask the Chadian authorities to return six French aid workers home following a conviction for attempted kidnap.
The six employees of French charity Zoe's Ark were sentenced to eight years hard labour, for trying to tak..
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SF Gate
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A fire broke out in a planter box at Dublin City Hall this morning, prompting authorities to close the building to the public for the day, officials said.
City Hall was empty at the time and no one was injured in the blaze, which was reported at 5:32 a..
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BBC News
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Italian authorities have started deporting Romanian immigrants with criminal records under a controversial new law to tackle crime.
The move was prompted by the murder of a woman in Rome, allegedly by a Romanian illegal immigrant.
Italy's government..
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CNN
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Authorities are examining a photo taken in Morocco showing a child who appears to resemble missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, a spokesman for the girl's family told CNN Wednesday. "It appears to look very like Madeleine on first glance," spokesman..
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CNN
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Greek authorities and counter-terrorism squads are investigating whether arsonists started some of the forest fires that have claimed at least 41 lives as they sweep across the south of the country. The blazes have destroyed numerous homes and put a dampe..
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USA Today
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Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 575 people.
Torrential rains have..
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BBC News
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Authorities in the Chinese province of Hunan say that nearly 2,000 officials broke the ban on having more than one child, in the years 2000-2005.
The Chinese government announced earlier this year that fines for breaking the one-child law were to be in..
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