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Taiwan president's Facebook flooded with pro-Beijing posts
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» TAIPEI - The Facebook page of Taiwan's newly elected president Tsai Ing-wen has been flooded with tens of thousands of hostile comments, many of them demanding...
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France to 'modify' AZERTY keyboard to improve French writing
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» PARIS - The French are known for being sticklers about the correct use of language, but they have discovered something is getting in the way of perfect prose:...
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Macedonia closes border with Greece to migrants: police
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» SKOPJE - Macedonia has closed its border with Greece to migrants, police in Skopje said Wednesday, blocking the path of hundreds trying to reach northern Europe....
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Ten new faces in Brunel's Italy Six Nations Nations squad
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» ROME - Italy coach Jacques Brunel on Wednesday called up 10 new faces to his Six Nations squad ahead of their opening match against France on February 6.
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West vows to crush IS 'power centres' amid fresh hopes for Syria peace talks
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» PARIS - Western leaders injected fresh urgency into the fight against the Islamic State group Wednesday, vowing to destroy its "power centres", while...
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Huge 'ninth planet' discovered in solar system
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» MIAMI - A previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced on Wednesday.
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Shallow 5.9 magnitude quake jolts northwest China
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» BEIJING - A shallow 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted China's northwestern Qinghai province on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate...
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Deezer raises funds to expand as streaming heats up
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» PARIS - Streaming service Deezer said Wednesday it has raised 100 million euros led by the parent of music giant Warner to expand in the increasingly competitive...
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Science sleuths lift veil on prehistoric mass murder
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» PARIS - About 10,000 years ago, a small band of men, women and children were captured by a rival clan before being tied up, shot with arrows and bludgeoned to...
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Martial, Vardy in Premier League fast lane
AFP, Published on 21/01/2016
» LONDON - Anthony Martial and Jamie Vardy are the fastest men in the English Premier League with both strikers clocked at 22 miles per hour (35.4km/h) over five...