Reuters
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California assisted suicide bill advances in special session
A controversial bill to allow physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in California passed a key legislative committee on Tuesday, after failing in the legislature earlier this summer amid opposition from the Catholic Church.
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Barack Obama to run wild with Bear Grylls
The US President will test his wilderness skills with an appearance on Grylls' television show Running Wild.
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Christian film 'War Room' stuns with $11 million opening weekend
The box office underwent a religious conversion at the weekend as Christian crowds flocked to War Room.
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Migrant trains reach Germany as EU asylum system struggles to cope
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday.
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Ukraine: Violent nationalist protest outside parliament leaves one dead, many injured
A guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from the crowd.
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Philippines church calls off road-block protest after talks with government
The Iglesia ni Cristo had called out 20,000 members to block a major road in the capital Manila.
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Egypt sets October election date after three years without parliament
The election are final step in a process to bring back democracy that critics say has been tainted by widespread repression.
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Europe's leaders to seek solutions to migrant crisis as death toll mounts
Ministers have been summoned to an emergency meeting in two weeks' time.
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English union with Scotland is in 'mortal danger', says ex-PM Gordon Brown
New policies are dividing Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, he argued.
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Refugee children, close to death, found in van in Austria
Three young children suffering from dehydration and close to death have been rescued from a van crammed with 26 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, Austrian police said on Saturday.
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Christian group occupies Philippine highway for second night
Thousands of members of a Christian group occupied a busy highway in Manila for a second night on Saturday, protesting against what they say is government intrusion in church affairs.
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Thai police hunt more suspects after Bangkok bomb arrest
Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials found during a raid on a Bangkok apartment block.