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Italian school bomber gets life
18/06 21:48 CET
A 69-year-old man who placed a bomb in a waste bin outside a school in southern Italy last year, killing a teenage girl and wounding nine other children, has been given a life sentence by a court in Brindisi. Giovanni Vantaggiato gave no motive for the attack, which shocked the…
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ASIA | 18/06 20:23 CETIran: Hassan Rohani, the pragmatic president
Lawyer, cleric, academic. Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani was playing the role of the diplomat as he met his predecessor Mahmoud…
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AMERICAS | 18/06 20:19 CETBrazil disgusted as spotlight on sport squeezes services
Brazil’s middle class are demanding that public services be…
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ASIA | 18/06 20:04 CETUS to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban
The United States is to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban in an effort to end the 12-year-old conflict in Afghanistan. The first…
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EUROPE | 18/06 19:46 CETRussia votes to ban adoption for foreign gay couples
Russia’s lower house of parliament has voted unanimously in…
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EUROPE | 18/06 19:37 CETG8 announces agreement on Syria
British Prime Minister David Cameron is claiming a remarkable set of agreements for the latest G8 summit, especially on Syria, where he said…
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AMERICAS | 18/06 18:57 CETRouseff says Brazil government committed to change
In Brazil, protests over spiraling high costs and poor public services have spilled into widespread anger. It began as an isolated…
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18/06 14:25 CET
Russia isolated on Syria at G8
The second and final day of the G8 summit saw Russian President Vladimir Putin disagree with the other heads of state over potential…
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18/06 17:41 CETWeb Review: Bashar Al-Assad, Mali and FEMEN
Follow our daily selection of the best and worst of the Internet. June 18th is Italian-American actress Isabella Rossellini’s…
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AMERICAS | 18/06 17:38 CETNSA data programs ‘helped foil’ bomb plot
The surveillance of telephone and internet communications by the …
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EUROPE | 18/06 17:35 CETCameron hails G8 meeting a success on multiple fronts
British Prime Minister David Cameron is claiming a remarkable set of…
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MIDDLE EAST | 18/06 17:34 CETAfghan Taliban opens Qatar office in search of political solution
The Afghan Taliban has announced its opened an office in Qatar to help…
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ASIA | 18/06 16:47 CETFirst Italian jihadi killed in Syria
An Italian fighting with rebels in Syria has been killed. 20 year-old Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo from Genoa was a convert to Islam from a…
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