Nepal earthquake: More than 1,000 killed across four countries and in Mount Everest avalanche
Full Article The Independent
25 Apr 2015

A massive earthquake in Nepal measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has killed more than 1,000 people across four countries and triggered a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. The death toll has risen to 1,130 in Nepal, police have confirmed. In the capital Kathmandu 181 people were killed and across the wider Kathmandu Valley, which was badly...

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Volunteers help with rescue work at the site of a building that collapsed after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015.
photo: AP / Niranjan Shrestha

updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Massive Mount Everest Avalanche Caught on Camera
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Nepal 7.9R Quake 1,000 victims. AVALANCHE Mt. Everest,1,500 climbers.
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Devastating Nepal earthquake kills hundreds, triggers deadly Everest avalanche
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Nepal Quake: Hundreds Dead, Everest Shaken
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Powerful Magnitude-7.8 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Death Toll Approaches 900 |VIDEO
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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インド ネパールで巨大地震発生！　7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal KATHMANDU
Pakistan PM orders probe into killing of activist
Full Article Al Jazeera
25 Apr 2015

- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered a high-level investigation into the killing of prominent rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, who was killed shortly after hosting a talk on Balochistan’s “disappeared people” in the southern port city of Karachi. Mahmud, 40, was buried on Saturday evening, after a memorial attended by hundreds of...

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Members of the social group "Umeed Jawan Peace Society" hold pictures of prominent women's rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, who was killed by unknown gunmen, during a demonstration to condemn her killing, Saturday, April 25, 2015, in Lahore, Pakistan.
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updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Pakistan PM condemns shooting of activist Sabeen Mehmud
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud Shot dead in Karachi
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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Prominent Pakistani activist shot dead in Karachi
updated 11 Mar 2015; published 11 Mar 2015
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Pakistan Rangers Raided and Sealed MQM Nine Zero Headquarters
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Pakistan bomb blast outside market kills 81, wounded 164( Updated )
Exclusive: Brother says accused Tunisian was forced to captain migrant boat at gunpoint
Full Article Reuters
25 Apr 2015

TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian man accused of piloting a migrant boat that sank off Libya, killing more than 700 people, is himself a migrant who was forced at gunpoint to captain the ship because of his experience as a fisherman, his brother said on Saturday. Italian authorities say the man named in court as Mohammed Ali Malek, 27, was in charge...

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In this Monday, April 20, 2015, file photo, the Tunisian navigator Mohammed Ali Malek, and one of the survivors of the boat that overturned off the coast of Libya, waits to disembark from Italian Coast Guard ship Bruno Gregoretti, at Catania Harbor, Italy.
photo: AP / Alessandra Tarantino

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New rescue mission to save boat migrants
updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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African migrants captured by authorities as they attempt to make trip to Europe
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Psyco M & Gadour - Espoire Perdu [CLIP] - FUCK EU BORDER POLICE FRONTEX !!
updated 28 Nov 2014; published 28 Nov 2014
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European ministers meet to tackle migration
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Kim Kardashian urges Obama to call Armenian massacre a genocide
Full Article The Guardian
25 Apr 2015

Reality TV star criticises president’s choice of words in Time magazine op-ed, saying she will ‘fight for the genocide to be recognized for what it was’ ...

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Kim Kardashian heads to lay flowers at the memorial to the victims of genocide in Yerevan, Armenia, Friday, April 10, 2015.
photo: AP / Hrant Khachatryan, PAN Photo

updated 23 Apr 2015; published 23 Apr 2015
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Why Won't Obama Recognize the Armenian Genocide?
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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CNN Slams Obama for Breaking Armenian Genocide Pledge
updated 22 Apr 2015; published 22 Apr 2015
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Armenian Betrayal? Obama Shuns the Word 'Genocide'
updated 03 Sep 2014; published 02 May 2012
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Kim Kardashian Armenian Genocide 2012 Commemoration
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As President, I Will Recognize The Armenian Genocide - Obama
updated 12 Apr 2015; published 12 Apr 2015
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Pope Francis calls Armenian massacre 'first genocide of 20th century'
Powerful earthquake kills at least 718 in Nepal, causes avalanches in Himalayas, officials say
Full Article Newsday
25 Apr 2015

Add comment Reprints + - Volunteers help with rescue work at the site of a building that collapsed after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015. Photo Credit: AP / Niranjan Shrestha advertisement | advertise on newsday KATHMANDU, Nepal - A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing at least 718 people across a swath of...

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An injured man receives treatment outside the Medicare Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 25, 2015.
photo: AP / Niranjan Shrestha

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Nepal Earthquake 7.9-Magnitude Tremor Hits Kathmandu - More Than 1500 People Have Died
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Nepal Pokhara Kathmandu Delhi Bhaktapur - 7.5 Damages 597 Killed Dead!
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Nepal Bhaktapur Kathmandu - 7.5 Damages 597 Killed Dead (RAW FOOTAGE)
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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インド ネパールで巨大地震発生！　7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Nepal KATHMANDU
updated 25 Apr 2015; published 25 Apr 2015
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7.9-magnitude Quake Hits Nepal Near Kathmandu - More than 150 people have died
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Strong Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Damages Kathmandu

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Israel war on critics of Gaza crimes
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Press TV
Partisans of Israel are not content merely to murder and maim Palestinian civilians. They also launch “weaponized words” against anyone who speaks out against their...
What Earnings Slump? Tech Giants Power Stocks to Highs in Week
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What was billed as the worst earnings season in five years is jumpstarting a U.S. equities market that had been stuck in neutral for two months. Better-than-forecast results from...
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Fifteen years after peaking during the dot-com boom, the Nasdaq composite has reached a new all-time high. But this isn't the Nasdaq of Pets.com and Webvan, when companies were...

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Buy PhotoThe Rev. Shant Barsoumian places a flower on survivor Ramela Carmen, 101, Friday April 24, 2015, during a gathering of metro Detroit's four Armenian churches and those from other faiths for a special ecumenical service to honor and remember...
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24 April 2015 From the section Middle East Fierce fighting has been continuing in the southern city of Aden Yemen's former president has called on his Houthi rebel allies to withdraw from territory they have seized in return for a halt to Saudi air...
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Statue of Liberty deemed safe after bomb threat
The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, passes Statue of Liberty as it arrives Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 in New York
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Otago Daily Times
Law enforcement authorities determined the Statue of Liberty and surrounding areas were safe after a bomb scare led to the evacuation of hundreds of tourists, according to media reports. An anonymous telephone caller had threatened to blow up...
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Despite tensions, US, Russia vow cooperation in the Arctic
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits in his Outer Office at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., as he prepares to meet with retired Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp - now Special Representative for the Arctic - about Arctic climate issues on January 9, 2014.
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Times Union
IQALUIT, Canada (AP) — The United States, Russia and other Arctic countries looked past Ukraine's civil war and other tensions Friday, vowing to cooperate on preventing oil spills near the North Pole and combating climate change in a region warming...
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No decision yet on Mistral, France's Hollande says
French President Francois Hollande answers a reporter during his annual news conference, Tuesday, Jan.14, 2014 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Hollande is promising to cut 50 billion euros in public spending over 2015-2017 to try to improve the indebted economy. Hollande, a Socialist, came to office in 2012 on pledges to avoid the painful austerity measures carried out by neighboring Spain and Italy. But France’s economy has suffered two recessions in recent years and growth is forecast at an anemic 0.2 percent in 2013.
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Reuters
YEREVAN/PARIS (Reuters) - No decision has yet been taken on the future of France's suspended contract to deliver Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia, French President Francois Hollande said on Friday after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin....
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EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013
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Reuters
BRUSSELS, April 24 (Reuters) - The European Union cleared the import of 10 new types of genetically modified crops and two more kinds of cut flowers on Friday, its first authorisations in more than a year after a review of its blocked approval...
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Malaria kills over 1,200 children a day: UNICEF
on friday 27 july, in Citrana, Oecusse, a medical mission was led and coordintaed by MLG together with 2 FFDTL officers, Timorese doctord and cuban doctors as well as a UN nurse and responsible local athorities. The team saw 618 patients in a day and delivered medicine after consultations, did malaria tests and other vaccines when needed provided by the Timor-Leste Ministry of health. Seen here is a young patient.Photo by UNMIT/Martine Perret. 27 Juy 2012
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The Times of India
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that malaria kills more than 1,200 children a day across the world, despite a 40 percent drop in child deaths from the disease since 2000. The UN agency released its "Facts about Malaria...
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