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Dozens feared dead as 59 still missing

JAKARTA, Oct 02 (BBC/AFP): There are "no signs of life" under the wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people are still missing, rescuers have said.Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, were inside the two-storey Islamic boarding school in the town of Sidoarjo when it collapsed on...

Philippine quake toll rises to 72

BOGO, Oct 02 (AFP): The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday, rescuers said, as officials turned their efforts to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless.Firefighters and rescuers pulled a woman and her child from the rubble of a collapsed hotel...

Two dead in Israeli strike in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Oct 02 (AFP): Lebanon said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on the country's south on Thursday, the latest deadly attack despite a November ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah."The Israeli enemy strike that targeted a vehicle on the Jarmak-Khardali road led to a preliminary toll...

Netanyahu gambles Trump Gaza peace plan

JERUSALEM, Oct 02 (Reuters): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's support for Donald Trump's Gaza plan is a gamble that may win back estranged allies abroad and repair his political base at home but risks a battle with coalition partners opposed to any hint of a Palestinian state.Netanyahu, aligning himself with...

US begins troop drawdown in Iraq under signed deal

BAGHDAD, Oct 02 (AP): The United States has begun reducing its military presence in Iraq under a deal signed with Baghdad last year, with troop levels set to be cut by about 20 percent as responsibility for countering the Islamic State (IS) shifts to Iraqi forces, officials confirmed Wednesday.Pentagon spokesman...

Trump uses govt shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment

WASHINGTON, Oct 02 (AP): President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting "irreversible" cuts to programs important to Democrats.Rather than simply furlough employees, as is usually done during any lapse...

22 perish in church scaffolding collapse in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 02 (AFP): Makeshift scaffolding set up at a church in Ethiopia collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring 55, state media said.The incident occurred at around 7:45 am in the town of Arerti town, roughly 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of capital Addis Ababa, when...