A 30-year-old woman has become the third person to die from methanol poisoning in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, as the authorities investigate the source of the tainted drinks thought to be making people ill. Bruna Araújo de Souza died after consuming a vodka drink at a bar more than a week ago, according...
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U.N. Refugee Commission Head Suggests That U.S. Deportation Practices Violate International Law
The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider “backlash” in some countries against migrants and refugees. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, used a speech to lament that drastic funding cuts and shortages have...
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Video: Homemade Ice Cream In A Pinch
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Indonesia Ends Search For Victims Of Boarding School Collapse, 61 Dead
Indonesian rescuers wrapped up the search on Tuesday for victims trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Islamic boarding school in the province of East Java, after retrieving more than 60 bodies, disaster authorities said. Grief and confusion gripped the small town of Sidoarjo last week after foundational failures caused the Al Khoziny school to cave in on hundreds of people,...
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Four Dead, Including A Child, After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greek Island
Four people, including a child, died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of an eastern Aegean island on Tuesday, Greece’s coast guard said. A coast guard patrol boat recovered the bodies of two women, a man and a girl from the sea on the southern coast of the island of Lesbos, the coast guard...
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Army General Names As Madagascar PM To Quell Gen Z Protests
Madagascar’s embattled President Andry Rajoelina has appointed an army general as the new prime minister in a bid to end youth-led protests against his rule. He said the nation needed a premier “capable of restoring order and the people’s trust” before naming Gen Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo to the post. Coming days after the president expressed...
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Extreme Athlete Baumgartner’s Death In Paragliding Crash Was Due To Human Error, Inquiry Finds
The paragliding crash that killed extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner in July was caused by human error, an investigating prosecutor said Tuesday. Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, died July 17 along Italy’s Adriatic coast. Witnesses said the flight appeared normal until it started spinning to the ground, crashing near the swimming pool of...
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Authorities Find Body Of Missing Priest In Violence-Torn Region Of Mexico
Authorities found the body of a missing priest Monday in Mexico’s violence-torn southern state of Guerrero, the same area where a retired bishop who had tried to mediate between local cartels was kidnapped last year. The state prosecutor’s office announced the discovery in a statement identifying the deceased only as Bertoldo N and said they...
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Ojo, Lagos state – Four people have been killed after gunmen attacked a snooker spot near a military barracks in Ojo area of Lagos state. As reported by The Punch on Monday, October 6, the incident occurred on Saturday night, October 4, at Onireke bus-stop, where the snooker spot is located.
It was a sad night at a crowded snooker spot opposite Ojo Military Barracks, Lagos, when gunmen invaded it, leaving in its trail deaths and sorrow.
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*Trump Thanks Hostage Families HQ, Vows: Every Hostage Home
President Trump sent a letter to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum (Families HQ), thanking them for publicly backing him for the Nobel Peace Prize and pledging solidarity with the families. “Melania and I thank you for your tireless work. We remain committed to bringing every hostage home and to ending this conflict,” he wrote,...