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DPRK's Kim visits China embassy, hospital after fatal bus crash

TheleaderoftheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)KimJongUnvisitedtheChineseembassyinPyongyangonMondaytoexpress"deepsympathy"overabusaccidentthatkilled32Chin

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US top court will not revive verdict against Palestinian Authority, PLO

ThePalestinianAuthorityandPalestineLiberationOrganization(PLO)gainedalegalvictoryattheUSSupremeCourtonMondayasthejusticesrefusedtoconsiderreinstatinga655.5-mill

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Political tug of war over deaths of 39 Indian workers abducted in Iraq

India’sForeignMinisteronTuesdayconfirmedthedeathsof39IndianconstructionworkerskidnappedinIraqbytheIslamicState(ISIL)extremistgroupin2014,buttheannouncementturne

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Four years on, MH370 families oppose plans for a memorial

OnThursdayitwillbefouryearssinceMalaysiaAirlinesflightMH370disappeared.Withthemysterystillunsolved,somerelativesofpassengershavecriticisedplansforamemorialinAus

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Is it difficult for children from poor families to succeed?

ByAPDWriterYangSiyao“Povertywillnotlastforever.However,ifwedon’tspendthemoneyoneducation,wewillalwaysbepoor,”saidHeFaneng,afarmerinsouthwestChina’sYunnanProvinc

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Messi, Ronaldo lead sports stars in condemning Barcelona attack

FootballiconsandlongtimerivalsLionelMessiandCristianoRonaldojoinedSpanishsportsstarsaroundtheworldinexpressingtheirgriefafterThursday’sterrorattackinBarcelonale

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Survey: Most US families have no plan for college bills in advance

Nearly nine in ten US families always knew their child would go to college, but fewer than four in ten families ever created a plan for how to pay the bills, according to How America Pays for College 2017 report.

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Food insecurity affects about 14.12 million Yemenis: OCHA

Yemenipeoplefrompoorfamilieswhowereaffectedbytheongoingcrisisandunpaidsalariesreceivebreadatacharitybakery,inSanaa,Yemen,onJune7,2017.Thebakery,collectingmoneyf

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2 Australians confirmed killed in London terrorist attack: gov't

TwoofthevictimsoftheLondonterrorattackwhichoccurredattheweekendwereAustralian,thefederalgovernmentconfirmedonWednesday.ForeignMinisterJulieBishopconfirmedthenew

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Orlando nightclub victims' families sue Twitter, Google, Facebook

The families of three men killed at Orlando's Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc in federal court, accusing the companies of providing "material support" to the self-radicalised gunman.

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Displaced Afghan families seek assistance, plead for lasting peace amid increasing strife

"Our living conditions are becoming unbearable due to the security situation here getting worse and we are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance to survive, particularly as Afghanistan's bone-chilling winter is fast-approaching," head of a displaced family, Bismillah, 35, told Xinhua recently.

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China's grieving parents to get care from government

As millions of couples are considering welcoming a second child under China's universal two-child policy, the government is moving to take better care of bereaved parents whose only child died or became disabled.

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Taiwan tour bus fire victims' families sign settlements

Families of all but one victim of a tour bus fire in Taiwan have signed settlement agreements with insurance companies, officials said on Tuesday. But some relatives expressed outrage, saying they had been left with no choice but to sign.

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Israel to withhold returning of bodies of Palestinian "terrorists"

​Israel's government said on Saturday that a cemetery for Palestinian "terrorists" will be constructed in order not to return bodies of assailants to their families in the West Bank.

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In S. Korean cherry-blossom days, bereaved families of ferry disaster still fighting for truth

The bereaved families who lost their loved ones in one of South Korea's deadliest maritime disaster seemed at a first glance to have returned to their normal life, smilingly having a chat with each other before press conference to foreign correspondents in Seoul earlier this week.

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Hundreds of S. Koreans head to DPRK for family reunion

​Hundreds of South Koreans, luckily selected to attend a reunion for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, tossed and turned or stayed all night in excitement and anticipation for meeting their long-lost relatives from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

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S. Koreans to gather for long-awaited reunion with DPRK families

​Hundreds of South Koreans will gather in the country's eastern coastal city of Sokcho on Monday to prepare for the long-awaited reunion with their families from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).