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Syrian bomb explosions kill 140

Wrecked cars in Homs, Syria following a double car bombing
Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have killed at least 140 people, monitors and state media say.

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Asylum baby 'will be sent back to Nauru'

An asylum-seeker baby that sparked a hospital standoff has been released into detention in Australia, but will be sent offshore, the government says.

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Future migrant accommodation on fire in Bautzen, eastern Germany

'Cheers' at German migrant shelter fire

A fire which broke out at a building planned to house migrants in eastern Germany was greeted with cheers from some onlookers, police say.
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IS 'beheads' Hindu priest in Bangladesh

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Donald Trump marches to S Carolina win

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The chimney has fallen of a damaged house that has a red 'Danger' mark written on its side

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Frustration over NZ quake repairs - five years on
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Jim Townsend, retired mechanic

Australia's poorest place

A peek inside the rural town of Delungra
  • 21 February 2016
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Hillary Clinton after victory in Nevada

Losses and gains

Why Clinton's Nevada win didn't leave Sanders a loser
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Visegrad - the river and the castle

Fortress Central Europe

The castle where a new European bloc was born
  • 21 February 2016
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She lost her daughter Nikki in a road accident in 2010

'She died, I survived'

How a mother is saving lives to honour her daughter's memory
  • 21 February 2016
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alleged IS fighters captured in Nangarhar

Attacked from all sides

How IS has been making enemies in Afghanistan
  • 21 February 2016
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