Afghanistan hurtling towards collapse, Sweden and Pakistan say
DUBAI (Reuters) -Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on Saturday.
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October 23, 2021 China passes law to cut homework pressure on students
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has passed an education law that seeks to cut the “twin pressures” of homework and off-site tutoring in core subjects, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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October 22, 2021 Alec Baldwin accidentally fatally shot Rust cinematographer with loaded prop gun
A criminal investigation is underway after a “prop gun” fired by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western ‘Rust’ accidentally fatally killed the movie’s cinematographer.
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October 21, 2021 Donald Trump to launch social network, saying: ‘Your favourite president has been silenced’
Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech”.
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October 20, 2021 N.Korea confirms submarine launch of new ballistic missile
By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea test-fired a new, smaller ballistic missile from a submarine, state media confirmed on Wednesday, a move that analysts said could be aimed at more quickly fielding an operational missile submarine.
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October 19, 2021 North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea off coast of Japan
North Korea on Tuesday launched at least one ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, the South Korean and Japanese militaries confirmed.
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October 18, 2021 California plane crash kills 2, burns homes
A small plane crashed in a densely populated San Diego suburb Monday, killing at least two people, including a UPS driver, and leaving a trail of destruction that sent people scrambling to help their neighbours. At least two others were injured.
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October 17, 2021 Coal-state Democrat set to scupper Biden clean energy plans
President Joe Biden is likely to abandon a clean energy programme that was the centrepiece of his efforts to tackle greenhouse gas emissions at home, US media reported, because of opposition from a swing-vote Democratic senator from a state with a historically large coal industry.
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October 16, 2021 Diplomats in last-ditch effort to bring world leaders to Cop26 table
The UK, the US and the EU are embarking on a frantic round of climate diplomacy in a last-ditch attempt to bring key countries into a deal on greenhouse gas emissions before the Cop26 climate summit.
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October 15, 2021 Taiwan war fears: China warned troops to return in body bags ‘Horrific casualties!’
Xi Jinping may choose to escalate the conflict with Taiwan in order to shore up China’s communist regime amid internal instability, Sky News Australia host Catherine McGregor has warned. Ms McGregor believes the Chinese regime would suffer “horrific casualties” in any military invasion of the Western-allied island. She added that the Chinese Communist Party would risk […]
