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7 year-old girl killed in stabbing attack on the last day of school before Christmas
A knife-wielding teenager walked into a school in Croatia’s capital Zagreb on Friday, killing a young student and injuring 3 more children and a teacher, authorities said.
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Haiti's main airport shuts down as gang violence surges in the capital, US Embassy says
Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported Monday.
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Shanghai puts a stop to spooky season
Police in China’s financial capital were out in force over the weekend to crack down on Halloween festivities, after revelers last year wore politically sensitive costumes.
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon organization Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo.
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Michigan woman eaten by shark on vacation in Indonesia
While the remains of Colleen Monfore were found in the belly of a shark after she disappeared during a dive excursion in Indonesia Sept. 26, her loved ones don’t believe the shark killed her.
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Severe flooding in Thailand forces evacuation of elephant sanctuary
A well-known elephant sanctuary in Thailand appealed for help on Friday after torrential flash floods forced the evacuation of about 100 elephants.
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Dozens of zoo tigers die after contracting bird flu in southern Vietnam
More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.
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Woman gets 40 years for giving husband lethal dose of tranquilizer in attack captured on dashcam
Prosecutors say Amanda Hovanec, her lover and her mother all played roles in the death of her estranged husband amid a custody dispute.
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As big supermarkets pursue profits, new research shows growing exploitation of shrimp farmers
An analysis of the industry in Vietnam, Indonesia and India, which provide about half the shrimp in the world’s top four markets, found a 20%-60% drop in earnings from pre-pandemic levels.
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Montana man to be sentenced for cloning giant sheep to breed large sheep for captive trophy hunts
An 81-year-old Montana man is expected to be sentenced for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
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Several people detained in Switzerland after person dies in a ‘suicide capsule'
The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber. The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die by suffocation in a few minutes.
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‘Short corn' could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
Short corn developed by Bayer Crop Science is being tested on about 30,000 acres in the Midwest.
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Alcohol-free beer is gaining popularity, even at Oktoberfest
Alcohol-free beer has been gaining popularity in recent years as beer consumption shrinks.
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Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen
Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.
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Death of young Ernst & Young employee raises questions about workplace culture
Indian authorities are investigating the work environment at a global accounting firm after the death of a 26-year-old employee whose mother said she was overworked.
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UN approves more transparent procedures for people and entities to get off its sanctions lists
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved more transparent procedures Friday for the hundreds of individuals, companies and other entities who are subject to U.N. sanctions and want to get off the blacklists.
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The son of Asia's richest man gets married in the year's most extravagant wedding
The four-day wedding celebrations began Friday with the traditional Hindu wedding ceremony and will be followed by a grand reception to run through the weekend
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Mount Everest's highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely to take years
Since the peak was first conquered in 1953, thousands of climbers have scaled it and many have left behind more than just their footprints.
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US soldier convicted of theft in Russia and sentenced to years in prison
A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday convicted a visiting American soldier of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison.
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Singapore closes public beach as it intensifies oil spill clean up
Authorities have deployed 18 crafts for the clean-up efforts and laid close to 1,500 meters of container booms, temporary floating barriers to trap the oil spill.