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‘Afghan MSF survivors’ call for US troops trial

  Kunduz / AFP Survivors of a US air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan have called for those responsible to go on trial and dismissed an American military investigation that said the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. The attack on the hospital run by medical charity Doctors Without Borders in the city of Kunduz last October ...

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Hundreds protest outside Trump speech in California

  Burlingame / AFP Hundreds of demonstrators jostled with police in riot gear outside a California hotel where Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump gave a speech, forcing the candidate to duck into a back entrance. At one point, several dozen protesters broke through barricades and attempted to storm the hotel where the California Republican Party Convention was taking place on Friday, ...

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Brussels airport departure hall to partly reopen today

  Brussels / AFP The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the IS group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said. The twin explosions on March 22 killed 16 people and devastated the departure hall, shattering the building’s glass facade, collapsing ceilings and destroying check-in desks. The airport was completely ...

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Norway searches for 2 missing bodies after crash

  Denmark / AP A search continued on Saturday for the two missing bodies from the crash of Airbus EC-225 helicopter off western Norway, killing all 13 people on board. Police spokesman Per Angel said they also were working on identifying the 11 victims found so far. The helicopter carrying workers from an offshore rig in the North Sea went ...

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Police detain protesters at party convention in Germany

  BERLIN / AP Police have detained about 400 leftists who were protesting against the national convention of the populist Alternative for Germany party in Stuttgart. German news agency dpa reported that protesters were shouting “refugees can stay, Nazis must go,” as some 2,000 party members arrived at the convention center on Saturday morning. Protesters temporarily blocked a nearby highway ...

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North Korea accusations against US troops ‘unsubstantiated’: UN

  SEOUL / AP The American-led UN command on Saturday dismissed as unsubstantiated accusations from North Korea that US troops at a border village tried to provoke its frontline troops with “disgusting acts.” A North Korean military statement warned US soldiers to stop what it called “hooliganism” at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom or they’ll meet a “dog’s death ...

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2 Ukrainian soldiers killed in rebel east despite truce

  Ukraine / AFP Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fresh fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the east even as a new truce took effect, Kiev said on Saturday. “As a result of hostilities, over the past 24 hours two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and four others wounded,” Ukraine’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists. The ...

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Struggle of missing Mexican students’ parents continues

  Mexico / AFP There were no tears and their faces were hardened by 19 months of grief and anger as the parents of 43 Mexican students who vanished in 2014 marched in the capital. Less than two years ago, they would have been surrounded by tens of thousands of people as they protested against President Enrique Pena Nieto’s handling of ...

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Contested Turkey deal ‘only solution’ in migrant crisis: EU

  Paris / AFP A highly contested EU deal with Turkey may not be ideal, but it is the only solution to stem the migration crisis, the bloc’s Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Christos Stylianides said on Thursday. The deal in which Turkey agrees to take back certain migrants fleeing to Greece in exchange for visa-free travel in the EU has angered member ...

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