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Ex-employee kills 19 in knife attack at Japan home for disabled
A knife-wielding former employee killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care centre for the mentally disabled in Japan on Tuesday, ...Solar plane completes epic round-the-world trip
Solar Impulse 2 on Tuesday completed its historic round-the-world journey, becoming the first airplane to circle the globe powered only by the ...Nine militants killed in police raid in Bangladesh
Bangladesh police on Tuesday killed nine militants who were believed to have been plotting an attack similar to the one on a ...Syrian migrant killed by own bomb near German music festival
A Syrian migrant set off an explosive device near an open-air music festival in southern Germany that killed himself and wounded a ...IOC will not impose blanket ban on Russia for Rio Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not impose a blanket ban on Russia for next month\'s Rio Olympics over the nation\'s doping ...Swedish ex-prime minister Thorbjorn Falldin dead at 90
Thorbjorn Falldin, a pipe-smoking sheep farmer who became prime minister in Sweden\'s first non-Socialist government after World War II, has died at ...Turkey frees 1,200 soldiers detained after coup bid
Turkey has freed 1,200 soldiers detained after the failed military coup, a top prosecutor said on Saturday, in its first major release ...At least 61 dead, 207 wounded in Kabul demonstration attack
At least 61 people were killed and 207 were wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack on a demonstration in Kabul claimed ...Nearly 3,000 dead in Mediterranean already this year: IOM
Nearly 3,000 migrants and refugees have perished in the Mediterranean Sea already this year while almost 250,000 have reached Europe, the International ...Several killed in shooting at Munich shopping mall
At least six people are believed to have been killed in a shooting rampage in a Munich shopping centre on Friday that ...