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| UpdatedAlthough details are still uncertain over how and why the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was killed, government officials and independent experts all say the assassination looks like the work of North Korean agents.
Topics: death, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, malaysia, united-states
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European football giants Barcelona look set to miss out on the Champions league quarter-finals, after the Catalans are hammered 4-0 by PSG in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
Topics: sport, soccer, champions-league, france, spain, portugal, germany
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Atlanta Falcons fans are still clearly feeling the Super Bowl loss, with the city's zoo naming a baby Madagascar hissing cockroach "Tom Brady".
Topics: american-football, other-sports, sport, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump was informed in late January that Mr Flynn had not told Vice-President Mike Pence the whole truth about conversations he had with Russia's ambassador to the US before Mr Trump took office, White House spokesman Sean Spicer says.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedAs the war enters its sixth year, teachers in Syria's refugee camps are trying to make do with the little they have — but the students there face a bleak future in a life disrupted by war.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, immigration, education, unrest-conflict-and-war, poverty, syrian-arab-republic
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The election for governor of Jakarta will be held under a cloud of religious, racial and legal tension that has Indonesia's police chief worried about the intimidation of voters.
Topics: elections, world-politics, government-and-politics, indonesia
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| UpdatedThe half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is dead after being reportedly assassinated by two chemical-wielding female North Korean agents in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, murder-and-manslaughter, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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Austrian police arrest a man described by local media as "Hitler's double" for possible violations of laws against glorifying the Nazi era.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, world-war-2, history, community-and-society, world-politics, austria
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| UpdatedToshiba may have reached the end of the road, with the Japanese company delaying a release of its earnings report amid a huge one-off loss.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, corporate-governance, nuclear-energy, information-technology, japan
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| UpdatedEither Michael Flynn has one of the world's worst memories or he deliberately misled his Vice-President and the United States as to the content and subject matter of his calls to the Russian ambassador, writes Philip Williams.
Topics: world-politics, united-states, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team wins its 100th straight US college game, adding another chapter to their storied history.
Topics: basketball, sport, united-states
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn resigns after conceding he gave "incomplete information" to Vice-President Mike Pence about his discussions with Russia's ambassador to the US.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, donald-trump, united-states
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| UpdatedDiners at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort boasted about being at the centre of the action on Facebook as the President held an impromptu national security meeting in full view of club members.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
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| UpdatedThe Trump administration decrees sanctions against Venezuelan Vice-President Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, venezuela, united-states
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| UpdatedTens of thousands of California residents remain in shelters as engineers work to shore up the tallest dam in the US before new storms sweep the region.
Topics: dams-and-reservoirs, floods, emergency-incidents, united-states
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| UpdatedA report rebuts Russian and Syrian claims that civilians were not deliberately targeted in the final attack on the rebel-held Syrian city of Aleppo.
Topics: syrian-arab-republic
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A suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore kills at least 13 people and injures 83 others, a senior police official says.
Topics: terrorism, government-and-politics, police, pakistan, asia
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| UpdatedThe Iraqi air force has carried out a series of air strikes on a residence where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting other commanders, the Iraqi military says, without clarifying whether or not he had been hit.
Topics: terrorism, world-politics, army, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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| UpdatedEngland's newest Test captain Joe Root may only be 26 years old but, from pub scraps to Lord's tons, he has a long history against Australia.
Topics: cricket, sport, england, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedDonald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vow to push ahead with closer trade ties and downplay their differences over refugees in their first face-to-face meeting at the White House.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, donald-trump, trade, united-states, canada