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Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 - Kazakh courts have detained about 30 people or fined them ahead of a weekend protest called by a foreign-based opposition body, a civic group said Thursday.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 15, 2020 - Hong Kong activists denounced Beijing and called for democracy in a courtroom on Tuesday as two dozen high profile campaigners appeared over a banned vigil to mark the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
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Tokyo (AFP) Sept 25, 2022 - Thousands were without running water and power in central Japan on Sunday after Typhoon Talas dumped record rains on the region, triggering floods and landslides, and leaving at least two dead.
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Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 6, 2022 - At least two people are dead and thousands have been ordered to flee a rapidly spreading fire in California, with the region's oppressive heatwave expected to peak Tuesday.
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Mexico City (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Two people were killed and more than 3,000 buildings were damaged by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on the anniversary of two devastating tremors, authorities said Tuesday.
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Port Moresby (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 - A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea Sunday, damaging buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least two people, with several more severely injured.
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Beirut (AFP) Sept 8, 2015 - A dense sandstorm engulfing parts of the Middle East left at least two people dead in Lebanon and hundreds suffering from respiratory problems on Tuesday, as officials warned residents to stay indoors.
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Madrid (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 - Two people died when their car overturned as torrential rains and flooding hit southeastern Spain Thursday, sparking travel chaos and closing schools in a move affecting hundreds of thousands of children, officials said.
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Caracas (AFP) Sept 14, 2023 - Clashes between illegal gold miners and soldiers trying to dislodge them from a natural reserve in Venezuela left two civilians dead and six people injured, authorities said Thursday.
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Baguio, Philippines (AFP) Sept 26, 2008 - Two bodies have been retrieved from a flooded mine shaft in the northern Philippines but there was no sign that 14 other trapped miners were still alive, rescuers said Friday.
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 28, 2023 - Two consecutive years of extreme warming in the Alps have obliterated 10 percent of Swiss glacier volume - the same amount lost in the three decades prior to 1990, a report revealed Thursday.
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Yaounde (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - Two civilians were killed in Cameroon after being shot by soldiers, the army said Wednesday, the latest violence in a region hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.
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Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 4, 2021 - Two atypical cases of mad cow disease have been detected in Brazil, resulting in suspension of its exports of beef to China, the Agriculture Ministry said Saturday.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2010 - Two asteroids were set to pass close to Earth on Wednesday but posed no risk, the US space agency NASA said.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2011 - Police in China said Wednesday they have arrested two people suspected of killing a Chinese journalist who had been following a scandal involving the sale of gutter cooking oil.
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa (AFP) Sept 30, 2016 - Two men have appeared in court in South Africa accused of stealing a penguin called Buddy from a marine park and releasing him into the sea, police said Friday.
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