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Sponsors sever ties with Sharapova
Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer has severed ties with Maria Sharapova as the grand slam champion started to count the cost of a failed drug test and likely ban from tennis. Sports firm Nike and German...
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Steve Smith: India favourites to win World T20
Australian cricket stars Steve Smith and Shane Watson have declared hosts India will be the team to beat at the Twenty20 World Cup. India won the recent T20 Asia Cup in Bangladesh, while they crushed...
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‘Terrorist’ kills U.S. tourist, wounds 10 others in Israel — near Biden visit...
A stabbing attack — carried out by a “terrorist,” according to authorities — along a popular oceanfront boardwalk around Tel Aviv left an American tourist dead and 10 other people wounded not far from...
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These hyper-realistic photos are actually oil paintings
Water droplets slide down the faces of children as they stare directly at what you could easily believe is a camera. In fact, they are all paintings by Lagos-born Nigerian artist Oresegun Olumide. The...
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Greece’s ‘warehouse of souls:’ Refugees stuck in old stadiums, derelict airport
For many refugees, Athens is no longer the doorway to Europe. But they still keep coming — at an average rate of 1,800 people each day during February. Some come by ferry… After hours slicing though...
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Rare storm batters Abu Dhabi
An unusually soggy week in the United Arab Emirates turned nasty Wednesday as a massive storm whipped through the desert nation, causing damage throughout the capital, Abu Dhabi. The downpour quickly...
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Smith guides Australia to series win
Captain Steve Smith scored a breezy 44 to guide Australia to a six-wicket win over South Africa in the final Twenty20 cricket International in Cape Town and a 2-1 series victory. After electing to bat,...
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President visit Taveuni
As the destruction left behind by Cyclone Winston is being cleared, students are slowly returning to school in Taveuni. Schools on the island are still badly in need of repair. For the time being...
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Boy drowns while fetching water
Investigations are now underway into the discovery of a 14-year-old boy’s body that was found floating in a river at a village in Nalawa, Ra yesterday. The boy was last seen leaving home to go fill...
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New J.K. Rowling story earns ire of Native Americans
The first story of J.K. Rowling’s “History of Magic in North America” has inflamed some members of Native American communities. The story, which chronicles wizarding from the 14th to the 17th...
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Man in custody for rape of teenage boy
A 36-year old man is in police custody and two more men are on the run after they were reported to have allegedly raped a 13-year-old boy of the same village. The offence had been happening on several...
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Man tries to kill baby
A 36-year-old farmer is in police custody after he allegedly tried to suffocate his 3-month-old daughter. The baby’s mother was doing her house chores when their 3 month old baby was crying. The man,...
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Foran has no regrets about joining Eels
Kiwi international Kieran Foran says he has no regrets about joining Parramatta, as speculation of potential NRL salary cap breaches mount at the club. Fresh claims that the club had illegally...
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Ministry replaces fatigued doctors
To avoid fatigue, the Ministry of Health has begun replacing it’s medical staff in the severely affected areas. Minister for Health and Medical Services, Jone Usamate says their doctors and nurses have...
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Officials tour HMAS Canberra
To better understand the scope of work carried by international agencies, stakeholders in the rehabilitation and relief support took a tour of the HMAS Canberra today. The delegation consisted of...
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Fiji Police Force relieve officers in affected areas
The Fiji police force has commenced relieving officers posted in affected areas. With majority of these officers fatigued and most having lost their homes, the change in shifts will help officers...
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First U.S. patient to undergo uterus transplant has organ removed
The first patient in the United States to receive a uterus transplant had to have the organ removed because of a complication, the Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday. The 26-year-old woman received...
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U.S.: ISIS detainee providing information on chemical weapons
The U.S. military has conducted airstrikes against targets it believes are crucial to ISIS’ chemical weapons program based on information provided by a senior ISIS operative involved in chemical...
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First on CNN: U.S. plans to publicly blame Iran for dam cyber breach
The Obama administration is preparing to publicly attribute a 2013 cyber attack against a New York dam to Iranian hackers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the investigation. The Justice...
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‘What a blunder’: No magic in Spanish castle restoration
A combination of three documents provided by the Centre de Estudios Borjanos on August 22, 2012 shows the original version of the painting Ecce Homo (L) by 19th-century painter Elias Garcia Martinez,...
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