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Supermarket chain pulls down website

[2015-04-16 07:50]

Australia's biggest supermarket chain apologized on Wednesday and pulled down a website that has been widely criticized for commercializing the centenary of the country's Veterans Day.

8 former educators convicted in testing scandal

[2015-04-16 07:50]

Eight former Atlanta public school educators were ordered on Tuesday to serve between one and seven years in prison after being convicted on racketeering charges in one of the nation's largest test-cheating scandals.

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[2015-04-16 07:50]

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Ferry victims' families pay tribute

[2015-04-16 07:50]

More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea on Wednesday at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy's anniversary.

Farmers driven to suicide as rain, hail wreck crops

[2015-04-16 07:50]

April is usually a time of celebration for millions of farmers across northern India. The winter wheat crop is ready to be harvested, and there's money to clear debts and plan future planting.

Chinese navy carried teacher from danger

[2015-04-16 07:50]

Pakistani teacher Saima Tanveer show little emotion as she recounts her family's terrifying dash through war-torn Aden, dodging bullets and shells to reach the port and flee Yemen on a Chinese naval vessel.

UN bans arms to Houthis

[2015-04-16 07:50]

World powers took wide-ranging action against Yemen's Houthi rebels on Tuesday, hitting them with a United Nations arms embargo and new United States sanctions.

Coal mine managers on trial for deadly disaster

[2015-04-16 07:50]

Eight former managers at the mine where Turkey's worst mining disaster occurred in May appeared in court on Wednesday on murder charges, with prosecutors demanding they spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Kerry confident US Congress will approve Iran deal

[2015-04-16 07:50]

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday he is confident Barack Obama will be able to get Congress to approve a nuclear deal with Iran after the US president acknowledged lawmakers will have the power to review an accord with Teheran.

UN: Millions of children unschooled

[2015-04-16 07:50]

More than 12 million children in the Middle East are not being educated despite efforts to expand schooling, the UN children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday.

EU urged to adopt strict lobbyist rules

[2015-04-16 07:50]

European Union governments and institutions must adopt robust rules for powerful lobbies seeking to shape laws and policy or face the risk of corruption, anti-graft watchdog Transparency International warned on Wednesday.

Plan to drop Cuba from terror list welcomed

[2015-04-16 07:50]

US President Barack Obama's move on Tuesday to drop Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism was "fair", the Foreign Ministry in Havana said.

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