Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament
NEW DELHI: India's riot police baton-charged protesters in New Delhi as they tried to march to parliament on Monday, escalating a protest over irregularities in major examinations.Protesters ran for cover as police in blue riot gear charged at them near the Jantar Mantar protest site, an AFP journalist saw.Thousands of...
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Five Afghan migrants die of thirst fleeing to Iran, 14 missing
HERAT (Afghanistan), July 20 (AFP): Authorities in southwestern Afghanistan were searching on Monday for 14 people missing in the desert after five other migrants trying to reach neighbouring Iran died in the heat, police said.The group departed more than a week ago in Nimroz, one of the driest and hottest...
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Russian attack on corn ship off Ukraine’s Odesa kills 10
ODESA, 20 (Reuters): A Russian missile strike on a ship carrying corn near Ukraine's southern port of Odesa killed 10 people, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, in the deadliest attack in a weeks-long flare-up of violence in the Black Sea. Russia hit the Golden Leo - a Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship manned...
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Six dead, 21 injured after 2 earthquakes in Peru
CHUPURO (Peru), July 20 (Reuters): At least six people were killed and 21 injured after two earthquakes struck a mountainous region of Peru, the country's civil defence chief said on Sunday.The quakes, measuring magnitudes 5.1 and 3.7, hit on Saturday night in Chupaca province in the Junín region, about 300...
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Mali insurgents ambush army convoy, source says more than 50 killed
BAMAKO, July 20 (Reuters): Militants linked to al Qaeda and a Tuareg-led separatist group ambushed a military convoy in northern Mali over the weekend, and a source close to the rebels said more than 50 soldiers and allied Russian fighters were killed and others taken hostage.The attack marked the latest...
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