Licence granted for largest medicinal cannabis site in NZ, Auckland company says thousands stand to benefit

The Ministry of Health has granted a licence to cultivate cannabis to New Zealand-owned biotechnology company Helius Therapeutics, the fir...
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All Blacks return to white collar with new jersey

The All Blacks have revealed their new jersey, returning to the traditional white collar. Beauden Barrett and Ryan Crotty in the All Bl...
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Egypt’s police step in to combat potato shortage

The media have been publicizing raids on warehouses where authorities say businessmen are hoarding potatoes to try to drive up prices Th...
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Pacific rim trade pact, abandoned by Trump, goes ahead after Australia ratifies deal

BANGKOK: The Pacific rim trade pact abandoned by President Donald Trump will take effect at the year’s end after Australia became the sixt...
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Possible seabed position of ill-fated Lion Air jet located

The 2-month-old Boeing plane plunged into the Java Sea on Monday just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta Lion Air, a discount carrier, i...
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Driver of fatal Taiwan train crash apologizes to relatives

It was the first time driver Yu Cheng-chung had spoken in public since the Puyuma Express derailed on October 21 ‘I’m sorry, this will b...
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Nearly 25 die in separate incidents in Afghanistan

20 killed after army helicopter crashes in Farah Taliban claim responsibility for the attack KABUL: More than 20 military and ci...
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India unveils world's tallest statue at a cost of $610 million

India’s prime minister today unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country’s fir...
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Trump under fire for weighing up using executive order to nullify constitutional birthright of US-born babies

US President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before the midterm elections, declaring that he wa...
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Q3 net profit more than triples to 957 million euros: Airbus

Airbus, which rivals Boeing of the US, said it was maintaining its forecast for deliveries of 800 commercial aircraft this year. Airbus...
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Yemen’s newly appointed prime minister meets UN Humanitarian Coordinator

DUBAI: Yemen’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed on Tuesday met UN humanitarian coordinator Lise Grande and her accom...
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Samsung slashes capex, warns of lower profit in future after record third quarter

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics slashed 2018 capex by more than a quarter on Wednesday and warned of lower profit until early next year, callin...
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Pakistani Islamist party calls for death of judges who freed Christian woman sentenced for blasphemy

The leader of the Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) party also called for the ouster of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government Supporters of a Pak...
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Nurse goes on trial in Germany over 100 patient deaths

Prosecutors say at least 36 patients were killed at a hospital in Oldenburg where he worked, and about 64 more at a clinic in nearby Delme...
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Oil prices climb for first time in three days, but trade war fears drag

Oil has been caught in the global financial market slump this month The United States is set to impose new sanctions on Iranian crude f...
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Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt expands diplomatic network as Brexit nears

In comments released ahead of a speech in London on Wednesday evening, Hunt said Britain would form "an invisible chain linking the w...
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Pregnant migrants want their children ‘to be American’

“It’s ridiculous. And it has to end,” said Trump of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment that grants US citizenship to those born on US so...
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Discovery of bones near Vatican embassy revives 1983 mystery

Orlandi disappeared after leaving her family’s Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of th...
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Four dead, five injured in a blast targetting Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Afghanistan

At least four people were killed and five others were wounded after a blast targeted a vehicle of the employees of the of Pul-e-Charkhi pr...
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Trump under fire for weighing up using executive order to nullify constitutional birthright of US-born babies

US President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before the midterm elections, declaring that he wa...
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Global lawmakers battle over junk food warning labels

One in nine people around the world goes hungry every night, while one in eight adults are obese, according to the latest figures from the ...
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Indian couple fall to their deaths taking selfie at the Grand Canyon

She was a self-described “adrenaline junkie,” and he took “wow-worthy photos” of the couple posing at the edge of cliffs and jumping from ...
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