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A measles epidemic in Samoa has killed 20 people - mainly children - as hundreds of new cases emerge across the Pacific Islands every day.
In Samoa - the worst affected nation - a state of emergency has been declared as the government said 19 out of the 20 people who have died from measles are aged four and under.
The government said 202 cases were
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Write comment (95 Comments)Donald Trump has claimed he stopped Hong Kong from being "obliterated in 14 minutes" by China over pro-democracy protests in the city.
The US president said Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a "million soldiers standing outside of Hong Kong" but he had asked his "friend" not to send in the military.
In a television interview with American TV show Fox
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Write comment (95 Comments)Britain has been accused of acting like an illegal colonial occupier for refusing to hand back control of a remote set of islands in the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos Islands were due to be given back to Mauritius by Friday following an overwhelming vote at the UN General Assembly in May.
The Foreign Office says it does not recognise Mauritius' claim to
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Write comment (96 Comments)Letizia Battaglia was convinced that one day she would be shot dead. Or worse. She knew better than most the horrific ways in which mafia victims were brutalised and degraded.
The death threats came in the form of anonymous phone calls and letters. But she carried on, documenting the mafia's most horrific crimes through photography for almost 20
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