6.1-magnitude quake in Japan kills three
TOKYO, June 18 (Reuters): A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka, Japan's second-biggest metropolis, early on Monday, killing three people, halting factory lines in a key industrial area and bursting water mains, government officials and broadcaster NHK said.No tsunami warning was issued. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said authorities were assessing damage...
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Venezuela club explosion leaves 17 dead
CARACAS, June 18 (Reuters): At least seventeen people died at a Caracas club on Saturday when a person activated a tear gas grenade inside.Venezuela's interior minister Nestor Reverol said over 500 people were at a party at the Los Cotorros club in the middle-class El Paraiso neighbourhood when the device...
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20 die in Nigeria blasts
Maiduguri, June 18 (Reuters): Blasts have killed at least 20 people in Nigeria, police said.The residents said the toll was even higher in the largest attack for weeks in a region blighted by the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency.In an emailed statement issued on Sunday, the police said 20 people...
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News in Brief (19-6-2018)
Israeli forces kill PalestinianGAZA, June 18: A Palestinian was killed on Monday when a part of Israel's fortifications on the Gaza Strip border blew up as he tampered with it, the Israeli military said. The 24-year-old man's death in northern Gaza followed a more than two-month surge in tensions along...
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