According to kentnews.co.uk, police are appealing for witnesses after an 18-year-old Japanese student was robbed in Canterbury. The woman had just got off a bus at 9.30pm on Saturday, August 17 and was walking in St George’s Place by the Waitrose car park entrance when a man approached her from behind and grabbed her handbag. The victim tried to keep hold of her handbag and fell to the ground and was dragged along while the suspect kept pulling and eventually managed to grab it. She suffered extensive grazing. Read article
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MSN Music reports that former B2K singer Raz-B has been placed on life support at a hospital in China a day after undergoing facial surgery following a vicious bottle attack at a nightclub on Thursday. The 28-year-old, real name De’Mario Thornton, was performing when a fight broke out in the crowd. The star allegedly tried […]
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Kiyvpost.com reports that eleven Russian, three Ukrainian and two Belarusian citizens were hurt as a result of a large road accident on the Kerch highway in Crimea, which involved a GAZ 3309 truck, a Daewoo Lanos, a Mazda car and a Mercedes Sprinter minibus. Read article
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Reuters reports that insurgents attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s eastern capital on Saturday, killing nine people and reinforcing fears that a bloody regional power struggle will be played out in the country once most foreign troops leave. Twenty-three people were wounded when checkpoint guards stopped three attackers in a car as they approached the […]
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According to news24.com, a helicopter en route to South Sudan for use by the UN World Food Programme crashed in Ethiopia on Wednesday, injuring several people on board, officials said. The helicopter crashed in the town of Debre Zeit, about 50km outside Addis Ababa, said Dina Mufti, the spokesperson for Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]
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According to bernama.com, a Malaysian private student was killed and his elder brother injured in a road accident in Jordan yesterday, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said Thursday. He said Nik Mohd Ariff Suparjo, 19, who was pursuing a short-term Arabic language course in Amman, died after the vehicle he was travelling in skidded […]
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According to the Washington Post, Turkey’s state run Anatolia news agency says that at least 24 migrants have drowned after a boat capsized in the Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast. The Turkish Coast Guard responded to an SOS call from the speed boat’s captain early Wednesday. Video footage taken by Anatolia shows […]
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According to lematin.ch, a Swiss bus carrying Serb seasonal workers overturned Wednesday morning on the M1 motorway between Vienna and Budapest at the height of Nagyszentjános (104 km west of Budapest), police said. The accident caused 15 injuries. “According to initial information, the driver was driving too fast and it is for this reason that […]
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According to agi.it, a TV reporter working for Russia Today was injured in shelling on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, the broadcaster announced via Twitter. The journalist, Ibrahim Issa, was hit by shrapnel as he was following clashes between loyalists and rebels. Read article
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According to thejakartaglobe.com, an Indonesian woman died and seven people remain missing after a wooden boat believed to be smuggling them out of Malaysia to return home for the end of Ramadan overturned, authorities said Friday. Twenty-seven people have been saved after the boat heading to Indonesia’s Batam island capsized early Thursday off southern Johor […]
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