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Thousands march at Auschwitz to honour victims
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» OSWIECIM (POLAND) - Thousands of young Jews from 40 nations marched alongside a handful of Holocaust survivors and Polish teenagers Thursday in homage to the...
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Kidney transplant Merritt eyes Rio Olympics and...Hollywood
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» DOHA - Just 248 days after he underwent a kidney transplant, Olympic gold medallist Aries Merritt will on Friday take part in the first Diamond League meeting...
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Di Luca 'regrets nothing' about doping that makes cyclists 'liars'
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» MILAN - Banned for life in 2013, disgraced Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca said he "regrets nothing" from a drug-fuelled career that turned him...
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Japanese PM hopes for peace progress with Putin
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» LONDON - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he hoped to make progress on a World War II peace treaty with Russia and a long-simmering territorial dispute...
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Windows 10 spreads to 300 million devices
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft announced Thursday that its latest Windows operating system designed to work on laptops, desktops, smartphones, Xbox One consoles and...
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Thousands flee western Canada's raging wildfires
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» LAC LA BICHE, Alberta - Residents fleeing a voracious wildfire in western Canada's Fort McMurray thronged a tiny hamlet several hours away Thursday as firefighters...
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Jung maintains Grand Slam bid with bold Badminton start
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» LONDON - Germany's Michael Jung kept himself on course to win three-day eventing's richest prize with a strong start at the Badminton horse trials in south-west...
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Better together? Men and women tee-it up in Rabat
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» RABAT - European golf claimed a slice of history on Thursday when both men's and women's tours competed at the same venue at the same time at Rabat's Royal Golf...
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Air strikes on Syria displaced camp kill 28 as Aleppo truce holds
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» ALEPPO, SYRIA - Air strikes killed at least 28 civilians Thursday in a camp for the displaced in northern Syria near the Turkish border as a 48-hour ceasefire...
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Prince secretly donated thousands to Afghan orphans, says charity
AFP, Published on 06/05/2016
» KABUL - Prince was famous worldwide for his music and extravagant outfits, but he was also a secret philanthropist in war-torn Afghanistan, quietly donating thousands...