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Deportation of refugees begins

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos have started putting people on boats bound for Turkey, the first to be deported under a European Union plan to stem the flow of refugees to Europe. Witnesses reported seeing two boats set sail after police boarded people who had arrived on buses.[…]

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FBI iPhone hack likely to leak

The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts. Once it is exposed, Apple should be able to plug the encryption hole, comforting iPhone users worried that losing physical possession of their devices[…]

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Kenya marks anniversary of Garissa massacre

Students who survived the massacre at Garissa University in Kenya last year are still struggling to cope with the trauma of losing their friends who were shot and killed by the al-Shabab fighters. A year ago, attackers from the Somali armed group stormed the Garissa University College campus in the[…]

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Dozens killed in Nagorno-Karabakh clashes

At least 30 soldiers have been killed in fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along the frontlines of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials of both the countries said. Both sides blamed the other for the fighting that began overnight. Azerbaijan said on Saturday that Armenian forces killed 12 of its[…]

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Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid dies

Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 65. Hadid died after suffering a heart attack at a Miami hospital, where she was receiving treatment for bronchitis, her design firm said in a statement on Thursday. “Zaha[…]

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Healthy babies can be born from embryo defect

An academic who became pregnant with her second child, aged 44, has shown that abnormal cells in the early embryo are not necessarily a sign that a baby will be born with a birth defect such as Down’s syndrome. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, who describes herself as one of the growing[…]

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