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Pope urges oil majors to combat global warming and aid poor

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2018

Pope Francis asked Saturday that major oil and gas companies respect the 2015 Paris climate agreement to help protect the poor from global warming. The Paris Agreement was adopted in December 2015 by 196 nations resolving to limit warming to no more than two degrees centigrade. In a meeting

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Crocodile kills pastor as he baptizes followers near lake

Daily Dispatch June 9, 2018

A pastor was killed by a crocodile as he baptized members of his congregation in a lake in Ethiopia. According to reports in Ethiopia, protestant pastor Docho Eshete presided over the ceremony at Lake Abaya over the weekend. As he baptized about 80 people in the water, multiple witnesses said a crocodile jumped out of […]

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40 million Americans live in poverty —UN says, indicts Trump

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2018

The United Nations has said that no less than 40 million Americans live in poverty, with 18.5 million living in extreme poverty, while 5.3 million Americans live in what it calls “Third World conditions of absolute poverty.” Some unsettling statistics about poverty from the report states: 40 million Americans live in poverty 18.5 million live in […]

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BREAKING: Eleven dead, 25 trapped in mine explosion

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2018

Eleven people were killed and nine injured Tuesday in an explosion at an iron-ore mine in northeast China’s Liaoning province, state media reported. Twenty-five people are trapped in the mine run by China National Coal Group Co, according to state broadcaster CCTV. AFP

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Germany: Police shoot man waving knife inside cathedral

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2018

Berlin police have shot and wounded a 53-year-old Austrian man who allegedly waved a knife inside a cathedral in the centre of the German capital. There was no indication the man’s actions were linked to terrorism, Berlin police spokesman Winfrid Wenzel said. The dpa news agency quoted police as saying the man appeared to be […]

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Bodies of 11 migrants recovered off Tunisian coast

Daily Dispatch June 3, 2018

The bodies of 11 migrants have been recovered and 67 others rescued after their boat began sinking off Tunisia’s southern coast, the interior ministry said Sunday. Those rescued from the fishing vessel off the coast of southern Sfax province included “Tunisians and foreigners”, it said citing an initial toll. The Tunisian national guard and navy […]