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Canada court orders tobacco firms to pay smokers $12.4 bn
A Canadian court on Monday ordered tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US12.4 billion) to smokers in Quebec province who claimed they ...South Korea announces first two MERS deaths
South Korea on Tuesday confirmed the country\'s first two deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread ...Islamic State suicide attack kills 38 Iraqi policemen
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing ...US Patriot Act spy provisions expire as Senate deal fails
Key provisions of the US Patriot Act expired early Monday after the Senate failed to prevent their lapse, plunging US national security ...Bad weather casts doubt on solar Pacific flight
Solar Impulse 2 was in a holding pattern near Japan on Monday as organisers warned that bad weather in the days ahead ...South Africa admits paying $10M but denies FIFA bribe
South Africa denied that a $10 million payment it made in 2008 was in any way a bribe to FIFA for the ...Greece, creditors agree on need for quick deal as talks continue
Greece and its European creditors agreed on the need to reach a cash-for-reforms deal quickly as Athens missed a self-imposed Sunday deadline ...Clashes in Somalia leave 35 dead
At least 35 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a week of clashes in villages near Somalia\'s border with ...Five killed in eastern Ukraine fighting
Three Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed over the past 24 hours in fighting in the separatist east, a Ukrainian ...Nepal schools reopen after devastating earthquakes
Thousands of children, many still traumatised from losing homes and loved ones, returned to class Sunday as Nepal\'s schools formally reopened following ...




