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Prince Charles to visit Italian town hit by deadly earthquake

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 3:36
related countries: Italy, United Kingdom
related places: Amatrice

The Prince of Wales will lay a wreath in the town of Amatrice where more than 200 people died.
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Colombia landslides: President Santos visits flood sites

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 4:34
related countries: Colombia

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has declared a state of emergency in the Putumayo region.
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Colombia landslide: 'Many roads were washed away'

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 8:40
related countries: Colombia
related places: Bogota

Dimitri O'Donnell, who is a reporter in the Colombian captial Bogota, on the operation to save some of those caught up in the disaster
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Climber hopes to scale Everest in half the usual time

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 9:57
related countries: United Kingdom

British-born climber Adrian Ballinger is using new techniques to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in half the time it takes using traditional methods.
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Kenya's high court rules that one third of MPs must be women

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 11:31
related countries: Kenya

Kenya's High Court has ordered parliament to enact a law that will ensure women get at least a third of all elective seats.
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Egypt court voids ruling halting transfer of islands to Saudi Arabia

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 12:38
related countries: Saudi Arabia

An earlier ruling had blocked the transfer of two Red Sea islands.
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Cleanup after Cyclone Debbie

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 12:47
related countries: Aruba

Floods caused by Cyclone Debbie ravaged the Australian east coast and left at least three people dead.
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S Korean cargo ship Stellar Daisy vanishes in South Atlantic

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 14:27
related countries: North Korea

A life raft is found floating a day after a distress alert by crew of the South Korean freighter.
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Andy Warhol portrait of Mao sells in Hong Kong

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 14:54
related countries: Hong Kong

China has previously stopped Warhol's Mao portraits being displayed on the mainland.
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Canada's Trudeau ready for rematch of fight with Perry

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 17:28
related countries: Canada

Canadian Prime Minister challenges Friends actor after talk show confession.
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Second Moscow opposition protest leads to arrests

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 20:32
related countries: Russia
related places: Moscow

It is the second Sunday in succession to see anti-corruption demonstrations in Moscow.
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Sniper war

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 23:28
related countries: Iraq
related places: Mosul

BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani joins an Iraqi security forces unit hunting snipers from so-called Islamic State in western Mosul.
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Islamic State group using human shields in Mosul

Sunday 2nd of April 2017, 23:41
related countries: Iraq
related places: Mosul

The BBC gets exclusive access to Iraqi helicopter missions and witnesses IS militants using human shields.
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