Tornado damages Australian homes, power lines
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- A tornado ploughed through a rural area west of Sydney on Thursday, damaging homes and scarring…
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts a second time in less than a year, producing smoke plumes, lava fountains
by Alfred Acenas and Charmaine Cirera-Raquel EBC Hawaii-Pacific HONOLULU (Eagle News) – The US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory…
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Kim’s sister gets post on top North Korean body
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister has been appointed to the country's top…
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Amazon reaches agreement with two workers who say they were fired illegally
Amazon has reached an agreement with two employees who accused the e-commerce giant of dismissing them in retaliation for their…
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More than 100 dead in Ecuador’s latest prison violence
by Santiago PIEDRA SILVA GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AFP) -- The death toll from bloody clashes between rival gangs in an Ecuador…
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N. Korea’s Kim condemns US dialogue offer as ‘facade’: state media
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned a US offer of dialogue as a "facade",…
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La Palma flights resume as volcanic lava reaches sea
by Desiree MARTIN Spain (AFP) -- A commercial flight flew into La Palma in the Canary Islands on Wednesday, the…
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Russia reports record virus deaths for second day
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Russia on Wednesday recorded its highest coronavirus death toll for a second day running, as infections…
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6.1-magnitude quake rattles Japan, no tsunami risk
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northwestern coast on Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued,…
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Fumio Kishida: calm centrist picked as Japan’s next PM
by Katie Forster TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan's next leader Fumio Kishida is a soft-spoken former foreign minister from a…
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