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• Hope fading for central Italy earthquake victims

  

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• Military jet crash kills two in Vietnam

  

  At least two people have been killed after a military training jet crashed minutes after take-off in southern Vietnam on Friday, local media reported.The Czech-made Aero L-39, which was being flown by a military student pilot, crashed onto a highway before coming to rest in a rice paddy field in Phu Yen province, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported.At least one crew member and a civilian on the ground were killed, with further rescue efforts reportedly underway.

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• A New Legal Landscape in the South China Sea

  

  On July 12, 2016, the arbitral tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration case instituted under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) between the Philippines and China handed out its final Award. It has been widely reported that the Philippines with this Award has scored a sweeping victory against China with regard to the latter’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. But describing this arbitration as a fight in which there is a winner and a loser belies t..

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• French court rules burkinis are back

  

  Tunisian women, one (L) wearing a "burkini", a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women. Picture: AFPFRANCE’S highest administrative court has suspended a ban on the Islamic burkini swimsuit brought by local authorities in a French Riviera town after it was challenged by rights groups.In a judgment expected to set a precedent, the State Council ruled that local authorities could only restrict individual liberties if there was a “proven risk” to public order.The judges said there was no such ..

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• Chimay: Suspected gas explosion at Belgian sports centre kills one, seriously injures two, officials say

  

  Chimay: Suspected gas explosion at Belgian sports centre kills one, seriously injures two, officials say Updated August 26, 2016 13:25:44 A suspected gas explosion at a sports centre in southern Belgium has killed one person and seriously injured two others, a security official says.The blast took place a little after midnight (local time) in the small town of Chimay, 110 kilometres south of Brussels.The official said five people were in the building at the time, with t..

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• Al-Shabaab kill ten in Mogadishu restaurant attack

  

  Al-Shabaab militants have killed ten people in a car bomb attack in Somalia. They exploded a bomb in a car parked next to the Banadir restaurant which is beside a beach in the Lido area of the capital Mogadishu. Afterwards the militants attacked people in the restaurant and fought the security forces for several hours. Six civilians, two members of the security forces and two of the attackers were killed, police said. A number of people who were injured, some of them seriously, were taken to a..

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