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US reporter at scene of school shooting ‘finds out suspect is own son’

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2018

A journalist who went to the scene of a deadly US school shooting discovered the 15-year-old alleged attacker was her son, it is claimed. Two students were killed and 21 injured at the Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky. The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online, Mary Garrison

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$24m refrigerators for Air Force One

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2018

The refrigerators in the U.S President’s plane, Air Force One, are being upgraded with the sum of $24 million. The contract for the upgrade by the new government has been awarded to Boeing, Washington Post reported on Sunday. The U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on […]

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Trump to African leaders: My warmest regards

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2018

No more shithole slur. US President Donald Trump has sent a more dignifying message to African leaders, meeting in Addis-Ababa this weekend. At a meeting today with Rwanda President Paul Kagame in Davos Switzerland, Trump asked him to pass on his “warmest regards” to other  leaders. Trump had sparked global outrage after describing African countries […]

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Two Turkish teachers end hunger strike after 324 days

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2018

Two Turkish teachers who were fired from their jobs by decrees issued under the state of emergency have ended their hunger strike after 324 days, a local media reported on Friday. The teachers however said that they would instead seek recourse through the judicial system. “We are ending our hunger strike today, but our resistance […]

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37 die, 130 others hurt in South Korea hospital blaze + video

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2018

A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital on Friday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country’s worst blaze for a decade. Around 130 others were hurt in the fire, which comes just weeks before thousands of athletes and foreign visitors are expected in the country for the Winter Olympics. […]

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Trump to apologise for re-tweeting anti-Muslim videos

Daily Dispatch January 26, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with the UK ITV broadcaster, partially released on Friday, that he was prepared to apologise for his retweets of UK right-wing group’s anti-Muslim videos. In November, Trump retweeted several unverified videos, originally posted on Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right Britain First movement, […]