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Southern Africa needs more aid as record 45 mn people face severe hunger:
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], Nov 1 (Sputnik/ANI): The international community should increase support for 16 countries in southern Africa, where a record 45 million people will be severely food insecure in the next six months, the UN World Food Programme (UNWFP) said on Thursday.
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Canada: Five teens injured in Toronto shooting
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Oct 31 (Sputnik/ANI): Five teenagers were injured in a shooting in Toronto, media reported on Thursday.
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Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits Philippine southern Mindanao island
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Mindanao [Philippines], Oct 31 (Sputnik/ANI): A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Philippines' second-largest island of Mindanao, located in the south of the country, the US Geological Survey data showed early on Thursday.
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Publisher of Snowden's new book not to pay him any profits until April 1,
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 31 (Sputnik/ANI): A US court has said that the publisher of whistleblower Edward Snowden's Permanent Record memoir has committed not to pay him any profits from the sales of the new book until April 1, 2020.
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Federal Reserve cuts US' benchmark interest rate to 1.50 pc - 1.75 pc
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 31 (Sputnik/ANI): The United States' benchmark interest rate has been cut by 25 basis points to a range of 1.50 per cent to 1.75 per cent, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.
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Five soldiers killed in Afghanistan's North in clash with Taliban
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI) A police checkpoint has collapsed in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province after a clash between law enforcers and the Taliban militant group, in which five soldiers have been killed, Hayatullah Amiri, the head of Kunduz's Khanabad district, told Sp
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Japan: Toll in heavy rains, floods risen to 12
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI): The death toll in floods caused by heavy rainfall in Japan has risen to 12, while one more person is still missing, national media reported on Wednesday.
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Russia: Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Kamchatka Peninsula
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kamchatka [Russia], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI): A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East on Wednesday, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
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Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi appointed IAEA chief
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI): Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi was on Tuesday appointed to succeed late Yukiya Amano as the new director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a United Nations' nuclear watchdog.
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Israel shoots down unidentified drone over Gaza Strip
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Oct 30 (Sputnik/ANI): Israeli fighter jets shot down an unidentified drone flying over the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday.
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Afghan security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar province
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Nangarhar (Afghanistan), Oct 29 (Sputnik/ANI): At least 11 Taliban militants were killed and eight others arrested in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghan security officials said on Tuesday.
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US considering 12-month extension of tariff waiver for certain Chinese goo
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Oct 29 (Sputnik/ANI): The United States is considering a 12-month extension on tariff exclusions for USD 34 billion worth of Chinese imports as the tariff exclusion deadline is set to expire in December this year.
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