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Thai diver dies as rescue teams ponder how to bring out trapped boys
Dwindling oxygen levels in the cave complex and weather forecasts predicting more heavy rain added to the pressure on authorities to work out a rescue plan.
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UK wants answers from Russia after two more people struck down by Novichok nerve agent
Britain demanded on Thursday that Russia provide details about the Novichok nerve agent attack on a former double agent and his daughter after two British citizens were struck down with the same poison.
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Church voices shock after couple left in critical condition by unknown substance in Amesbury
A local church has been cordoned off as a precaution
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Thai boys found alive in cave still face rescue ordeal as heavy rain poses more challenges
Rescuers raced to pump water from a cave in northern Thailand on Tuesday as forecasted heavy rain threatened to complicate efforts to free a young soccer team found trapped for 10 days, an ordeal officials warned they may have to bear longer.
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Mexico's new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vows zero tolerance on corruption
Mexico's new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would pursue friend and foe alike in a crackdown on corruption after voters handed him a powerful mandate for government with a landslide election victory on Sunday.
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Malta detains charity ship for second time in a week as migrant death toll rises
For the second time in a week, Malta on Monday detained a humanitarian vessel that normally rescues boat migrants off the coast of Libya, where two shipwrecks have claimed the lives of as many as 200 people in recent days.
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Pope Francis is popular with the world's Catholics â but he is fighting fierce internal battles
When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran into opposition from the Catholic Church's male-dominated hierarchy.
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States sue Trump over immigrant families as Congress quarrels
The family separations began because of the administration's two-month-old 'zero tolerance' policy of seeking to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally, including those travelling with children.
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Prince William begins Israel visit by honouring Holocaust victims
Britain's Prince William will pay homage on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, in a solemn start to the first official visit by a British royal to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Erdogan victory sets him up for tighter grip on power
Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan emerged victorious on Monday from his biggest electoral challenge in a decade and a half.
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Trump envoys meet Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects
US President Donald Trump's senior Middle East envoys met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects, the White House said, after holding separate talks with Arab leaders.
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UK's High Court rules against gender-neutral passports
A campaigner has lost a legal bid to force the British government to introduce gender-neutral passports.