More than 1,150 firefighters struggled to put out a fire in Portugal's southern Algarve tourist region on Monday, which injured 25 people overnight and led to the evacuation of homes and hotels.

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Malaysia has reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus on a farm in the eastern region of Sabah, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from Malaysia's veterinary authorities.

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Police in Malaysia have arrested two customs officers and three other suspects after a gang of thieves stole about 50 kilogrammes of narcotics, ketamine and heroin, from a customs storage facility in a heist on Sunday.

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Prime Minister Theresa May still believes that Britain will negotiate a good Brexit deal with the European Union rather than failing to win any agreement for its departure from the bloc, her spokesman said on Monday.

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China's Liaoning province will increase inspections at pig farms and markets and strengthen the monitoring of hog transportation, after the nation's first African swine fever case was reported there, local media Liaoning Daily reported on Monday.

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Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment with Canada after Ottawa urged Riyadh to free arrested civil society activists, in the top oil exporter's latest retort to Western criticism of its human rights record.

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