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| Australian Open 2018: Simona Halep to face Angelique Kerber in semi-finals World number one Simona Halep produced a superb performance to beat Karolina Pliskova in straight sets to reach the Australian Open semi-finals. The Romanian, 26, won nine games in a row from 3-0 down in the first set as she went on to triumph 6-3 6-2. Halep will face Angelique Kerber in the last ...
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| UNHCR steps up call for unhindered access in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State Two months ago, the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed on an arrangement for the voluntary return to Myanmar of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees currently living in the Cox's Bazar area in Bangladesh. The bilateral arrangement outlines important commitments by both ...
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| CAR displacement reaches unprecedented levels in 2017 Ongoing violence in Central African Republic (CAR), particularly in the country's north-west, has pushed forced displacement to the highest levels that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has seen since the start of the crisis in 2013. Data as of the end of December shows that 688,700 people were ...
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Indian PM Modi, in Davos, decries protectionism Delivering the opening speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Indian leader Narendra Modi has warned that globalisation is under threat. Modi told delegates at the Swiss resort on Tuesday that "forces of protectionism are raising their heads" against international trade and commerce.
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| Twilight Haze Shines Over Saturn's Big Moon Titan in Gorgeous Cassini Photo A stunning new view of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, captures beautiful layers of bluish-yellow haze in the moon's atmosphere. The image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 31, 2005. The photo shows individual layers of haze in the upper atmosphere of Titan — the second-largest moon ...
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| New global registry of invasive species is 'milestone' in protecting biodiversity A world registry of invasive species has been launched amid concerns that governments are not doing enough to tackle the rising threat of globalisation to biodiversity. The new catalogue – unveiled in the journal Scientific Data on Tuesday – is expected to become a pillar of international efforts to fight ...
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| US says Turk offensive in Syria is disruptive JAKARTA, Indonesia — Turkey's air and ground offensive against Kurds in northwestern Syria has distracted from international efforts to finish off the Islamic State group and has disrupted humanitarian relief work, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. Mattis raised the matter in an exchange ...
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| Angelique Kerber living in the present, and it's paying off There's no uniform key to success on the WTA Tour, but the one Angelique Kerber hit upon at this Australian Open might be about as close as you can get. "I'm not looking too far ahead," the No. 21 seed told Tennis Channel in a postmatch interview following her 6-1, 6-2 demolition of No. 17 seed ...
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| Five missing workers in Oklahoma well fire presumed dead HOUSTON (Reuters) - Officials on Tuesday called off the search for five missing workers and declared it "a recovery mission," a day after a fiery explosion at an oil and gas drilling site in eastern Oklahoma. Three men from Oklahoma, one from Texas and one from Colorado were presumed dead, officials ...
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| Twin car bombs kill more than 30 in Libya's Benghazi: officials BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday left at least 33 people dead and dozens more wounded, including senior security figures and civilians, officials said. The twin explosions shattered the relative calm that had recently returned to Libya's ...
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