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A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok in Indonesia on Sunday killing 14 people and sending villagers fleeing from their beds into open fields to avoid collapsing buildings.

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Former President Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe's opposition in Monday's election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup.

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A referendum on whether Italy must leave the euro currency is not in the governing coalition's agreement and will not be pursued, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the 5-Star Movement Luigi Di Maio stated in a released interview.

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Pro-Syrian government forces advanced in an Islamic State pocket in southwest Syria on Sunday, a military media unit run by Damascus' ally Hezbollah reported, despite a risk to captives the jihadists took last week.

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Police in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun said on Sunday they had asked prosecutors to approve the arrest of 18 people at Changsheng Bio-technology Co Ltd, a vaccine maker at the centre of a safety scandal.

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Assistance for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, attempting to move beyond a bitter conflict over migrant policy that threatened the coalition, has actually been up to its most affordable level because 2006, a survey revealed on Sunday.

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