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Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges over opioid sales

Purdue, through greed and violation of the law, prioritised money over the health and well-being of patients, says FBI deputy chief

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Floods kill 111 in central Vietnam, Storm Saudel on the way

Among those dead are 22 soldiers who were engulfed in a huge landslide on Sunday in Quang Tri province, and 13 members of a rescue team who had attempted to sav...

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Pope Francis endorses civil unions for same-sex couples

The move goes against the Catholic Church's longstanding opposition to the advancement of LGBTQ rights

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Europe tightens virus curbs as global cases top 40 million

Countries throughout Europe are girding themselves for another round of lockdowns

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Thai PM says may lift emergency decree as rival rallies rock nation

Protestors remain sceptical the prime minister will back up his claims and will continue to be on the streets

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Pentagon chief stresses stronger alliances to counter China, Russia

Just two weeks before the election, the US defense chief unveils a strategy that could be undone in a couple months

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Arrest warrants issued for founders of Panama Papers firm

Investigators hope that co-founder Juergen Mossack, who has family in Germany, may surrender to officials in order to negotiate a reduced sentence

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Air pollution killed half a million newborns in 2019

A growing body of evidence linking mothers' exposures during pregnancy to dirty air with the increased risk of their infants being born too small or too early,...

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Tension and defiance in trenches of Karabakh

The clashes that broke out late last month have claimed more than 800 lives, dozens of them among civilians

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Trump records show Chinese business pursuits and bank account: NYT

Despite depicting China as the United States' greatest adversary, the president maintained a previously unknown bank account there

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NASA probe Osiris-Rex ‘boops’ asteroid Bennu in historic mission

If Osiris-Rex successfully comes home in September 2023, it will have collected the largest sample returned from space since the Apollo era

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Hopeless in Baltimore, ground zero of US ‘urban apartheid’

One of its starkest illustrations is life expectancy: a baby in the wealthy, white north was expected to live about two decades longer than one from the poor, B...

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France honours beheaded teacher as Macron ramps up anti-extremism campaign

Sorbonne university will be posthumously giving the teacher France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur