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Emirates Airlines crew member jumps from emergency door

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

One of the crew members of an Emirates Airlines aircraft due to depart Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport has sustained life threatening injuries after jumping off the emergency door. The Flight – EK 730 had just delivered passengers to Entebbe on Wednesday and was preparing to load others

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Chief justice sacked over birth date forgery

Daily Dispatch March 15, 2018

Nepal has sacked its controversial chief justice Gopal Parajuli following accusation that he faked his date of birth to remain in office, officials said Thursday. According to media reports, Parajuli apparently turned 65 several months ago. Parajuli, who succeeded Nepal’s first female chief justice eight month ago, accused the country’s leading newspaper of contempt of

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BREAKING: Merkel takes oath of office for fourth term

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday took the oath of office in parliament, launching her fourth-term government in Europe’s biggest economy. Lawmakers in Berlin’s glass-domed Reichstag had elected her with a margin of 364-315 with nine abstentions. Merkel was then formally appointed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier before taking the oath of office in the lower

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More Than 700 Canadian Doctors Protest Pay Raises Saying They’re Getting Paid Too Much

Daily Dispatch March 14, 2018

Nearly 800 doctors and medical residents in the Canadian province of Quebec have signed a letter protesting against plans to raise their pay, arguing that the funds would be better spent on other areas of the province’s beleaguered healthcare system. “We, Quebec doctors, are asking that the salary increases granted to physicians be cancelled and […]

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Tillerson ‘Unaware’ Of Reason For His Sack

Daily Dispatch March 13, 2018

Outgoing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not speak to President Donald Trump before he was sacked on Tuesday and has not been given a reason for his ouster, a top aide said. “The secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for […]

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Vegetable salad lands 14 in hospital

Daily Dispatch March 13, 2018

ourteen people, including four children, were hospitalised after a mass botulism food poisoning outbreak in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It said three of them are in a serious condition. An epidemiological investigation has been conducted and all patients have received the anti-botulinum serum. The first case of food poisoning in the […]