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Angelina Jolie Lands Visiting Professor Position in London
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EgyptAir 804 Black Boxes Remain Unrecovered: What We Know About the Hunt for Answers
The crucial black boxes f-rom EgyptAir Flight 804 have yet to be recovered after the plane disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea last week with 66 people aboard. The United States, France, Egypt and other countries are contributing to search teams combing the area.
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Takeaway nut curry death: Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman guilty
A "reckless" restaurant owner has been found guilty of killing a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry.
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Groom finds bride dead morning after their wedding
The couple had two young children who were with them at the ceremony in Richmond in North Yorkshire, England.
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NATO seeks new meeting with Russia ahead of Warsaw summit
Germany is pushing NATO to holding a meeting with Russia ahead of the upcoming summit of the alliance in Warsaw. It comes as NATO continues to ignore Russia’s concerns over its expansion and military build-up in Europe
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Barred f-rom voting on their own future
About three million people living in the UK are citizens of another EU country. Many have lived here for decades and count Britain as their home, but they can't vote in the referendum on whether to remain in the European Uni-on. So what do they make of the vote?
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EgyptAir flight crashed - Hollande
An EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, French President Francois Hollande confirmed.
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Putin intends to escalate Russia's military buildup whatever NATO does
These moves will spur the Kremlin, with some fanfare, to announce military “countermeasures.”
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Trump calls London Mayor Khan ‘ignorant’ & predicts poor relations with Cameron
White House hopeful Donald Trump says he is unlikely to have a good relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron and has suggested London’s new Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, is “ignorant” and should take an IQ test.
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French teen broadcasts suicide on Periscope after naming man who ‘raped’ her
A French teenager has broadcast her suicide on social media, showing viewers the moment she jumped in front of a train in Paris. The girl announced on the video she was a victim of sexual violence, naming the man who she claimed raped her.
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Brexit poll: Almost half of Europeans want own vote on leaving EU
An Ipsos poll of some 6,000 Europeans found that half think the UK will leave the EU and half think Brexit could lead to a ‘domino effect’ in their own country.
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London’s New Mayor: I Won’t Be Able To Visit The U.S. If Donald Trump Wins
“I’ll be stopped f-rom going there by virtue of my faith,” Sadiq Khan said.
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Khan said: "Fear does not make us safer - it only makes us weaker
Labour MP beats Conservative rival after bitterly fought race to replace Boris Johnson as London Mayor
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Sadiq Khan wins London election, becoming first Muslim mayor of major Western city - reports
Labour politician Sadiq Khan is leading the London mayoral elections. If he wins, he will become the first Muslim mayor of a major European capital.
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London looks set to elect Muslim mayor Khan
"Of the two strong candidates, he has more compelling ideas on tackling pollution and congestion," the paper said.
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Turkish PM Davutoglu bows out as Erdogan aims at stronger presidency
There could now be a third parliamentary election in less than 18 months.
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Cameron U-turn offers hope to lone child refugees in EU at risk of abuse
David Cameron has caved into demands for Britain to take in more child refugees who are stranded in Europe and at grave risk of human trafficking and sexual abuse, in what observers have branded a significant U-turn.
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NATO military buildup in eastern Europe will require 'retaliatory measures' f-rom Moscow
As of this writing, the “cessation of hostilities” in Syria has all but collapsed, and thousands of Russian forces are aiding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to retake Aleppo.
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Putin just made a major change to Russian law enforcement
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just carried out a major reshuffling of the country's law enforcement in attempts to take an even stronger grasp of the country, the Financial Times reports.
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