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Deaths of Instagram model, other women shock Iraq

Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 08:19 Last update: about 9 years ago

She was a 22-year-old former beauty queen, fashion model and social media star, whose daring outfits revealed tattoos on her arms and shoulder. Tara Fares won fame and 2.8 million Instagram...

UK says EU immigrants won't get priority after Brexit

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 14:22 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Britain will not offer European Union citizens preferential immigration status after Brexit, the government said Tuesday, announcing a system designed to give migrants with skills the U.K. needs...

Death toll rises to 1,234 in Indonesia disaster

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 13:49 Last update: about 9 years ago

Indonesia's disaster agency says the death toll from an earthquake and tsunami disaster on a central island is now 1,234. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho updated the figure at a news...

Juventus star Ronaldo sued, accused of rape by Nevada woman

Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 10:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued by a Nevada woman who said he raped her in the penthouse suite of a Las Vegas hotel in 2009 and then dispatched a team of "fixers" to obstruct the...

French singer and actor Charles Aznavour dies at age 94

Monday, 1 October 2018, 15:05 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Charles Aznavour, the French crooner and actor whose performing career spanned eight decades, has died. He was 94. One of the Armenian diaspora's most recognized faces and vocal defenders, he...

UK's Johnson brands Theresa May's Brexit plan 'deranged'

Sunday, 30 September 2018, 17:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Ex-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has branded British Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for leaving the European Union "deranged," fueling tensions as the ruling Conservative Party holds its annual...

Indonesia tsunami toll tops 800 but expected to jump further

Sunday, 30 September 2018, 16:56 Last update: about 9 years ago Associated Press

Rescue officials feared the full scale of Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami could climb far past the more than 800 already confirmed dead, as several large coastal towns remained cut off Sunday by...

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