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Watch: Train smashes into truck at Dutch level crossing
CCTV footage shows the dramatic moment a train crashed into a truck at a level crossing in the Netherlands.The vehicle can be seem manoeuvring forwards and backwards on the railway line before the barriers descend. It is then hit...
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US strikes on alleged drug boats violate law, UN human rights chief says
Rachel Hagan and Imogen Foulkes,Geneva CorrespondentEPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe UN's human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, saying the lethal attacks violate international law and amount to "extrajudicial killing".Volker Türk said...
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Rob Jetten’s Dutch centrist liberal party wins neck-and-neck election race, vote analysis says
The Dutch centrist liberal party of Rob Jetten has won Wednesday's neck-and-neck election race, according to vote analysis indicating it cannot be beaten by anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders.Jetten's D66 currently has a narrow lead of 15,000 votes over Wilders'...
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Tanzania election: Protesters defy army chief in third day of unrest
Protesters have taken to the streets in Tanzania for a third day, defying warnings from the country's army chief to end the unrest.Demonstrations have been taking place in major cities with young protesters denouncing Wednesday's election as unfair as...
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Nvidia expands global AI rollout with bumper South Korea deals
US chip giant Nvidia will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to South Korea's government, as well as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai.The companies will all deploy AI chips in factories to make everything...
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Latvian MPs vote to pull out of treaty on protecting women from violence
Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and intense debate in parliament.Several thousand people protested against the vote this week in Riga. It is...
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Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had...
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Colombian president has trouble refueling his plane after U.S. sanctions
Colombian President Gustavo Petro had trouble refueling his plane on a trip to the Middle East after being sanctioned by the United States, his government said Thursday.Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said that the presidential plane...
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Russia’s new nuclear weapons – do they work or is it Putin bluster?
On Wednesday, over tea and cakes with veterans of the Ukraine war, President Vladimir Putin announced Russia had tested a new weapon."There is nothing like this," the Russian leader said of the Poseidon - a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable underwater drone...
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Hurricane Melissa death toll nears 50, mostly in Jamaica and Haiti, as it hurries toward Bermuda
The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa and surveyed the damage it...
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Delhi blast: The night that shook India’s capital city
Vikas Pandey and Antriksha PathaniaBBC News, DelhiBBCAfter visiting the hospital, we drove to the site of the blast. It...