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Up to 10 dead in Texas high school shooting; suspect linked to social media posts about guns
Up to 10 people, mostly students, were killed in a shooting at a Houston-area high school Friday morning, and investigators said they found explosive devices at and around the school. Police arrested one suspect and detained another person of interest, officials said. Both are students at the school. At least six people were taken to…
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Europe on the Move: Commission completes its agenda for safe, clean and connected mobility
The Juncker Commission is undertaking the third and final set of actions to modernise Europe’s transport system. In his State of the Union address of September 2017, President Juncker set out a goal for the EU and its industries to become a world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation. Building on the previous ‘Europe on the Move‘ of May and November 2017,…
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Is Russia About To Abandon The OPEC Deal?
OPEC and Russia are meeting in a little more than a month to discuss the progress of their oil production deal and what’s next. On the face of things, there will be no surprises: every country taking part in the deal is still committed to the cuts until the end of the year. But Russia…
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EU Warns Greece Receiving More Refugees from Turkey Than Ever, More Budget Need, Police
A little girl looks on upon arrival at the northern island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea with other migrants and refugees from Turkey /AFP The European Union migration officials have warned that Greece is receiving more and more refugees from Turkey this year, pinpointing the need for more budget and personnel to…
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to Mbandaka city
AFP/Getty Twenty-three people are known to have died. The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the…
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Israel says its planes bombed militant targets in Gaza
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says it has carried out airstrikes on militant sites in Gaza overnight in response to machine gun fire that hit a building in the Israeli city of Sderot. The army said Thursday that planes bombarded a military compound and a weapons production facility in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian…
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Germany ready to repatriate over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants
Germany has proposed a new process that will facilitate the smooth repatriation of over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants back home. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said this when he received the Security Adviser to the President of Germany, Dr. Jan Hecker, and his team in Abuja. The new proposal, according to Onyeama, is predicated…
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Syria: Chemical weapons watchdog confirms chlorine gas attack in Saraqeb
The Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons has said samples show a high probability that chlorine gas was used in an attack in Syria. It did not say who had used the banned weapons. Chlorine gas “was likely used as a chemical weapon” in an attack in the northern Syrian town of Saraqeb in…
