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India asks Britain to deport liquor tycoon
Mallya, who used to run a liquor empire, left India on March 2 owing more than $1b and is believed to be in Britain
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Iraq shuts Al-Jazeera bureau for 'instigating violence'
The Doha-based news network said that it had not violated regulations or deviated from objective coverage
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Prince 'was diagnosed with AIDS six months before he died'
Sources say pop icon refused treatment because he believed God will heal him
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Air strikes on Aleppo hospital kill 27, including children
The city's last pediatrician was also killed in the strike
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Swedish politician 'steps down over virulent anti-Islam posts'
Karlsson allegedly threatened to carry out a suicide bombing against a mosque
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8 most expensive cars in the world
We take a look at the most expensive cars of 2016
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Philippines' Pacquiao shocked at 'Islamic' militant kidnap claim
Abu Sayyaf, a notorious gang that beheaded a Canadian hostage this week, had planned to abduct Pacquiao
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Watchers wonder if Apple has lost its magic
The question was front-of-mind Wednesday on Wall Street, where shares fell more than 6% to $97.82
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Police, Hindu hardliners halt church wedding in India
Wedding was stopped because the girl was a Hindu and not yet 18, police say
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India court rejects French woman's extradition challenge
Chile is seeking extradition of Marie-Emmanuelle Verhoeven for her alleged role in conspiracy to kill a senator
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Half Australia's Great Barrier Reef northern coral "dead or dying", scientists say
The Great Barrier Reef attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year
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IMF says Pakistan ready to go it alone when programme ends
Substantial progress had been made in repairing Pakistan's economy, says IMF
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Panama signs bank account info sharing deal with US
The US and Panama also already have a separate agreement in force on sharing tax information
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UN blacklists India-flagged ship carrying eastern Libya oil
Diplomats say sanctions committee has written to govts of India, UAE to remind them of the Libya sanctions
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Newborn disease outbreaks push South Korea to stiffen care centre oversight
The government says 265 babies caught infections, from respiratory to diarrhoeal diseases, in the first half of 2015
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FBI would gain new hacking power if search warrant rules change
Congress would have until December 1 to reject or amend a change to Rule 41
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Teenager takes grandmother's job to feed family in Rajasthan
There are 5.7 million child workers in India aged between five and 17, out of 168 million globally
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Halal: is it meat you're looking for? says China businessman
The company is at the forefront of a Chinese drive into the global halal market, exporting as far away as Saudi Arabia
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Germany's right-wing AfD shifts to anti-Islam platform
Storch says her party would call for ban on minarets, muezzins' calls to prayer and full-face veils for women
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First rocket launch from Russia's Vostochny after delay
The Kremlin's goal is to ease Russia's dependence on space launches in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
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US toddler shoots mother dead
The child, aged two and a half fired as his mother drove the car
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Syria ceasefire should be 'revitalised' before peace talks resume: UN envoy
The UN's Syria envoy said Thursday he planned to hold another round of peace talks next month
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Halting 'radical Islam' must be a top US priority, says Donald Trump
"Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States," says the Republican
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Bulgarian town bans face veil in public
The town council of Pazardzhik in southern Bulgaria voted overwhelmingly in favour of the ban
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Bahrain jails 8 for life over 'terrorism'
The same court jailed five others for "importing and possessing explosives for terrorist aims"
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Female suicide bomber wounds seven in Turkey's Bursa
The bombing took place near Bursa's 14th century Grand Mosque
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FIFA boss wants North-South Korea friendly
Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday that he is willing to try and set up a football match between arch-rivals
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Four foreign climbers killed in Himalayas
The Swiss and Austrian climbers were part of a team attempting to summit China's 8,027-metre high Shisha Pangma
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Women allegedly kicked out of cafe in California for being Muslim
Sara Farsakh accuses Urth Caffe staff of treating her and her friends with bias because they were wearing hijabs
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Chinese rights activist Harry Wu dies at 79
He is survived by his son Harrison and former wife Ching Lee
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Self-driving Volvo to be tested on streets of London
Swedish carmaker Volvo on Wednesday announces it would give self-driving cars to ordinary Britons to test in London
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UN chief says end 'madness' of nuclear weapon testing
Ban Ki-Moon urges ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which turns 20 this year
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Russia asks UN to list key Syrian rebel group as 'terrorist'
Alloush is the chief negotiator for the High Negotiations Committee, the war-torn country's main opposition group
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Russia applauds cooperation with US over Syria
'Overall, we positively assess the cooperation with the United States in Syria' Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says
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English junior doctors hold second day of all-out strike London
Some 21,600 junior doctors took part in the first day of the strike on Tuesday
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North Korea builds replica of South 'Blue House' for target practice
North Korea is preparing to blow apart a replica of South Korea's presidential Blue House on an artillery range
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Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam transferred to France
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says Abdeslam was formally placed under arrest after arriving on French soil
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Iran's Khamenei says US lifted sanctions only on paper
In practice US is scaring businesses away from the country, Khamenei says
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Germany confirms departure of spy agency chief
The move comes a year after damaging revelations that BND had helped the US National Security Agency spy on EU allies
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Top Indian lawyer ordered to inspect sexy condom packets
Conservatives in deeply religious India often register complaints with police under the obscenity law
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India likely to become net importer of sugar as drought dries fields
It would give rival producers such as Pakistan, Thailand and Brazil the chance to boost shipments from their ports
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Back to the future as South Sudan's old rivals 'end war', again
Peace doves released, and after Machar was sworn into office, two men stood alongside each other with hands on hearts
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Dutch FM warns no safety 'guarantees' for visitors to Turkey
The warning comes as the Dutch government is working to lift a travel ban on Dutch-Turkish journalist Ebru Umar
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Art detective says female and male model used for Mona Lisa face
Infrared technology was used to examine the painting
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Instagram testing minimalist black and white design
The app may be modernising and moving away from its original orange and blue aesthetic
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Australian police charge four over terror killing
Farhad Jabar, 15, shot senior accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, outside Sydney police headquarters
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Korean dog meat farmers seek fresh start
The dogs in Gong's farm, one of thousands across the country, are bred specifically for consumption
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First shipment of US natural gas to EU arrives
A move which could lead to continental price wars and reduce Russian market domination
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Iran parliament in the balance in election run-offs
Nearly a quarter of Iran's parliamentary seats are at stake
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Brexit would cost Britons a month's salary by 2020: OECD report
Britain leaving the EU referendum would lead to average working Briton losing equivalent of a month's salary

















































