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World's first hand-painted film vies for an Oscar
Working in Poland's Baltic port city of Gdansk, artists based their oil paintings on scenes shot on film with actors
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Aid convoy blocked in Syria despite UN ceasefire order: official
Top UN officials for humanitarian aid and political affairs lash out at Security Council members over 'inaction'
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Antarctica: a laboratory for climate change
Presence in Antarctica of plants proving resistant to extreme conditions has sparked hope for a warming planet
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Pakistan, India need to sit and talk on border tensions: US State dept spokesperson
Spokesperson reiterated there is no military solution in Afghanistan, ultimately has to be a political solution
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Saudi-led airstrikes kill 9 Yemeni civilians
Coalition also impose air and sea blockade to prevent weapons from reaching Houthis
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US detention of Pakistani at Guantanamo Bay has no legal basis, says UN body
UN Working Group report says prisoner should be released immediately, given a right to compensation
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Trump asks Congress for broad bill on guns, schools after shooting
Trump cautiously considers changing gun laws due to pressure by a wave of student activism
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Driving not 'be all' of Saudi women's rights: princess
King Salman announced in September that Saudi women would be allowed to drive from June
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Vatican sexual abuse envoy completes Chile visit
Priest Karadima accused of abusing children in 2010 and convicted by Vatican to life of penitence
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In Syria's Ghouta, rescuers keep finding bodies
600 civilians have been killed in 10 days of air strikes
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US deports 121 Pakistanis, 33 Indians in crackdown on illegal immigrants
Indian authorities say a flight full of deportees proceeded to Islamabad from New Delhi to drop off Pakistanis
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Russian hacker group breached German ministries, took data
Germany's federal cyber protection agency had no immediate comment on the reports
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India cabinet clears first anti-human trafficking bill
The new bill made a clear distinction between the trafficker and the trafficked
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Bride refuses to marry groom for being bald on wedding day
The groom chose a different woman from the same village to tie the knot
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Facebook censors 30,000 years old statue of ‘Venus of Willendorf’
The 4 inch figurine from the early stone age is the most popular and best-known prehistoric representation of a woman
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Nobel committee file police case after Trump is nominated for peace prize
The name of the 2018 winner will be announced in early October.
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Century old French murder still a mystery after 'animal' bone discovery
The investigators had determined two bone fragments found during a private excavation
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Rwanda to shut 700 churches, one mosque over safety, hygiene
Most of the churches that will be closed are small, with congregations of hundreds of worshippers
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Opposite sex marriages rate in Britain at lowest level since 1862
It was the first full calendar year during which same sex marriage was allowed
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Egypt train collision kills at least 12
The cause of the accident not immediately clear
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Saudi Crown Prince expected to visit U.S. March 19-22: source
Reports emerge amid US lawmaker's concern over Trump administration's efforts to sign nuclear accord with Saudi Arabia
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Mandatory exercise at the office, Sweden's latest craze
Bunge says "If you don't want to exercise or be a part of the company culture, you have to go,"
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How the blind use clicks to 'see': study
At zero, 45 and 90 degree angles, the participants were correct 100 percent of the time, the researchers found
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Indonesia calls off deadly landslide search, 18 believed dead
An avalanche of mud and rock cascaded down a steep slope burying victims as they worked their rice fields
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Czech man pretending to be militant faces terror charges: report
Accused allegedly caused train crashes while pretending he was a militant in bids to provoke backlash against Muslims
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'Beast from the East' sends Siberian cold blast across Europe
British Airways cancelled roughly 60 flights in and out of London Heathrow airport
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Saudi crown prince says reforms aimed at 'cancer' of corruption
You have a body that has cancer everywhere, the cancer of corruption. You need to have chemo
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Barbra Streisand says she cloned her dog twice
She collected cells from the mouth and stomach of her dying dog
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Fresh violence mars first day of Syria enclave 'truce'
the first day of a five-hour daily was marred by violence that saw seven people killed
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Xi confidant set to become China's new spy master - sources
The country looks to clean up its security apparatus and plug intelligence gaps
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UN chief plans new initiative to boost global disarmament agenda
According to UN, there are still some 150,000 nuclear weapons in the world
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China's supreme leader: Is extending Xi Jinping return to dictatorship?
"Democracy, which has been explored and practised by Western societies for hundreds of years, is ulcerating," media
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Saudi crown prince says corruption purge supports budget: Washington Post
Only a handful of specific allegations against those detained in the corruption crackdown have been revealed
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Trump son-in-law Kushner loses top security clearance
Kushner's loss of access casts serious doubt on his status as a power-broker inside white house
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Taiwan developer detained over deadly quake building collapse
A total of 17 people died across the eastern coastal town, 14 of them in the Yun Tsui building
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Eleven sick after envelope opened at US military base
The envelope was received at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. It led to an evacuation of the building
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Indian police probing graft case arrest son of former finmin Chidambaram
Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted that the Modi government was continuing its "vendetta" against Chidambaram
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Celebratory gunfire kills Indian bridegroom on wedding day
He collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead
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US lawmaker concerned over nuclear overtures to Saudi
Concerns come with US-Iran tensions high over the civil nuclear program of Riyadh's regional rival Tehran
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China's military flexes muscles for domestic objective: more funding
One source with ties to the military said another pressing area for more spending was salaries, which have not kept up
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Pakistan to back fresh Afghan peace initiative
Ghani offers talks with Taliban ‘without preconditions’
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Taliban seek direct talks with US
Call for talks comes a day before second round of a regional peace conference in Kabul
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Russia is 'arsonist and firefighter' in Syria: US general
Observers question how much of a withdrawal has actually taken place
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Guatemala uncovers alleged judge bribery ring
Lopez Villatoro suspected of bribing lower court judges
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Facebook says page of firebrand anti-Rohingya Myanmar monk removed
Wirathu once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his incendiary posts about Muslims
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Three-year-old boy tortured with cigarette butts while mother goes for shopping
Brother of mother’s friend allegedly assaulted the child in her absence; Sharjah police arrest the suspect
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Venomous snake sneaks into lunchbox in Down Under
With an apple and two snacks in the lunchbox, the baby eastern brown snake was also hidden in the lid
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Facebook launches effort to help boost newspaper subscriptions
Facebook recently took steps to enable publishers to encourage paid subscriptions directly from the social network
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Disneyland Paris to add Star Wars zone in $2.5 bn upgrade
The work will start in 2021 and significantly expand the park,which is Europe's most popular tourism destination
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US sees ‘positive indicators’ from Pakistan on fight against terrorism
The head of the US military's Central Command however adds that Islamabad has yet to make a strategic shift

















































