60 killed in car blast at Mogadishu checkpoint
At least 60 people have been killed in a car bomb blast at a busy security checkpoint in Somaliacapital.

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UN condemns human rights abuses against BurmaRohingya Muslims
The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution strongly condemning human rights abuses against BurmaRohingya Muslims and other minorities.

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Thai Navy Seal who took part in cave rescue operation dies from blood infection
A Navy Seal has died from a blood infection contracted during the rescue of 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.

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Authorities in Florida struck a grandmother with a stun gun three times on her 70th birthday after she refused to allow them into her home to search for her grandson, documents show.

The woman, Barbara Pinkney, was charged on Thursday with obstruction and battery on a law enforcement officer, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by NBC

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for intelligence that helped prevent terror attacks in St Petersburg, the Kremlin has said.

Two Russians were detained on 27 December on suspicion of plotting attacks during New Year celebrations in the city, according to Russian news agencies which cited the Federal

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Two parishioners have shot and killed a gunman who opened fire at a church in Texas, in an attack in which one other person has died.

The gunman fired once after entering the West Freeway Church of Christ, in White Settlement, a suburb northwest of Fort Worth, before members of the church, who were armed, retaliated to stop him, police said.

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