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Gaza health official says dead and injured were among hundreds seeking shelter from heavy fighting
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François Hollande calls ministers to crisis meeting after plane comes down with 116 people on board, 51 of them French
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Lawyers tried to persuade judge to halt execution of Joseph Wood in emergency motion filed 90 minutes into procedure
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Revenue rises to 23% to $19.34bn but losses increase as it spends heavily on first smartphone, Fire Phone
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Residents of Mosul and Kurdish officials insist UN account is true, but militants dismiss it as propaganda
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Republican party's intellectual guru wants individual states to decide how best to spend money on tackling poverty
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Incident raises suspicion that US secretary of state was humiliated, weeks after 'snubbing' over al-Jazeera journalists
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Yatseniuk berates parliament for failing to pass law taking control of energy sector as Russian gas supply dwindles
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Some plans stymied by conservative media but leaders hail response governed by 'compassion and not fear or anger'
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Bill Simon will be replaced by Greg Foran, a 53-year-old New Zealander running Walmart's Asian business
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Two women from Christian organisation murdered as they took taxi in Herat, after separate attack in northern town's market
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Four people join board of embattled retailer as it seeks to rebuild its image in wake of firing of CEO Dov Charney
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Rev Al Sharpton makes passionate call for justice at funeral for man who died after being put in a chokehold by police
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Photon-M satellite and five reptiles on board will be lost unless contact can be re-established, says space industry source
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ECHR finds for Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who argued they were tortured by US agents in a Polish forest prison
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Unconfirmed sightings of a snake, perhaps 16ft long, raised concerns among visitors and swimmers
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Search giant faces backlash over its handling of the European Court of Justice ruling forcing link removals
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Surgeons operating on lump in Ashik Gavai's jaw found many 'pearl-like teeth' and a solid 'marble-like' growth
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Haris Suleman, 17, killed along with his father, Babar, as single-engined plane crashes in Pacific Ocean off Western Samoa
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Peace Corps said it is closely monitoring security environment and will determine when volunteers can return
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Charity figure says the country is more interested in 'sucking up to China' than helping poor in Africa