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Powerful storm kills eight in Romania

Monday 18th of September 2017, 0:01
related countries: Romania

At least 67 people are also hurt, as some areas in the west are left without water and electricity.
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Snapchat blocks Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia

Monday 18th of September 2017, 3:46
related countries: Saudi Arabia, Qatar

Snapchat has been caught up in an international row between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
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China and India water 'dispute' after border stand-off

Monday 18th of September 2017, 5:52
related countries: Bangladesh, India, China

China stops giving India crucial data for "technical reasons" but is providing it to Bangladesh.
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Theresa May visits Canada for post-Brexit trade talks

Monday 18th of September 2017, 8:04
related countries: Canada, United Kingdom

The PM and Justin Trudeau will also discuss a trade row that could threaten jobs in Northern Ireland.
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UK tourist in Venice hands big euro find to police

Monday 18th of September 2017, 9:17
related countries: United Kingdom

A 67-year-old British woman discovers a bag with thousands of euros in Venice and hands it to police.
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Emmys 2017: The Handmaid's Tale and Big Little Lies the main winners

Monday 18th of September 2017, 9:25
related countries: United Kingdom

Elisabeth Moss's TV drama wins big, while Charlie Brooker and Riz Ahmed lead the British victors.
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Deadly violence

Monday 18th of September 2017, 11:56
related countries: Ethiopia, Somalia
related places: Oromo

Fighting has broke out between Ethiopia's Oromo and Somali communities. The BBC looks at why.
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Chinese sex doll rental service suspended amid controversy

Monday 18th of September 2017, 12:14
related countries: China

A Chinese firm offering sex dolls for rent pulls the service after criticism from authorities.
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BBC launches services for Ethiopia and Eritrea

Monday 18th of September 2017, 13:01
related countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea

The BBC World Service launches websites in three new languages as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s.
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Venezuelan charged over Supreme Court helicopter attack

Monday 18th of September 2017, 13:11
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Caracas

A lone helicopter dropped grenades on the Supreme Court in Caracas in June and then disappeared.
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Textbook revolution

Monday 18th of September 2017, 13:17
related countries: Turkey

New Turkish school textbooks omit evolution but include the idea of "jihad" - provoking a row.
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Germans fined over pensioner left to die in bank branch

Monday 18th of September 2017, 13:33
related countries: Germany

Three people get heavy fines in Essen for not helping a critically ill pensioner at a bank branch.
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Canada unveils its first US Civil War monument

Monday 18th of September 2017, 16:27
related countries: United States

Although officially neutral, more than 7,000 Canadians died fighting in the US Civil War.
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Egypt social media users mock college flag ceremony

Monday 18th of September 2017, 16:31
related countries: Egypt

Egypt's decision to have college students salute the flag prompts online mockery.
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Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz shot dead by police

Monday 18th of September 2017, 16:35
related countries: Georgia

An inquiry is launched after Scout Schultz is killed confronting officers with a knife.
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Iraqi Kurdish referendum must be suspended - Iraqi PM

Monday 18th of September 2017, 17:22
related countries: Iraq

Iraq demands the suspension of the Kurdish independence referendum but will likely be ignored.
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Hundreds sentenced in Egyptian mass trial

Monday 18th of September 2017, 17:49
related countries: Egypt

Egypt has sentenced hundreds of people to jail - 43 of them for life - in its latest mass trial.
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Auckland Airport cancels flights after fuel supply cut

Monday 18th of September 2017, 18:40
related countries: New Zealand

Flights have been grounded after a digger accidentally cut Auckland Airport's sole fuel pipeline.
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Kenyan voting system 'won't be ready'

Monday 18th of September 2017, 19:17
related countries: Kenya

The voting system cannot be installed in time for October's election re-run, its maker says.
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Huge Russian war games under way

Monday 18th of September 2017, 19:22
related countries: Russia

A military exercise involving thousands of troops is provoking suspicion from some Nato countries.
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Hurricane Maria threatens British Virgin Islands

Monday 18th of September 2017, 19:36
related countries: British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom

The British Virgin Islands, still trying to get back on its feet after Irma, are now threatened by Maria.
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Donald Trump: The UN has not reached its potential

Monday 18th of September 2017, 20:31
related countries: United States

The US president tells a meeting of the UN it is time for reform and an end to "business-as-usual".
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North Korea says sanctions will accelerate nuclear programme

Monday 18th of September 2017, 21:01
related countries: North Korea
related places: Pyongyang

In an angry statement, Pyongyang says pressure will only make it accelerate its nuclear programme.
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Norway jails top policeman for smuggling hashish

Monday 18th of September 2017, 21:36
related countries: Norway
related places: Oslo

Eirik Jensen led a unit tasked with fighting organised crime in the capital Oslo.
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Stanislav Petrov, who averted possible nuclear war, dies at 77

Monday 18th of September 2017, 21:54
related countries: United States

Ex-Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov reported a possible 1983 US missile launch as a false alarm.
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British war bride and Canada groom die within hours of each other

Monday 18th of September 2017, 22:20
related countries: Canada, United Kingdom
related places: London

They met outside London in 1941 and died in different wards of the same Canadian hospital.
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Scout Schultz's father asks police: 'Why did you shoot?'

Monday 18th of September 2017, 22:50
related countries: Georgia

The parents of LGBT student activist Scout Schultz want to know why police fired the deadly shot.
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Yemen war: What happened to Saleem?

Monday 18th of September 2017, 22:51
related countries: Yemen

It has been a year since starving Saleem became the face of Yemen's suffering. But where is he now?
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Pyramid selling

Monday 18th of September 2017, 23:15
related countries: China

Low levels of education have fuelled the spread of illegal and harmful pyramid schemes in rural China.
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'Blue Whale' panic

Monday 18th of September 2017, 23:22
related countries: India

Panic over the rumoured 'suicide challenge' grips India even as internet experts call it a hoax.
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Change ahead

Monday 18th of September 2017, 23:40
related countries: Chile

Chilean fishing communities tell how their lives changed after their waters became a marine reserve.
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