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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and his support team have narrowly avoided a serious road crash in the NSW Hunter region on Thursday afternoon.

ENSCHEDE - De gemeente heeft donderdag de samenwerkingsovereenkomst met Kwekerij Heutinck ondertekend. Het voortbestaan van de kwekerij van de Sociale Werkvoorziening DCW is daarmee gewaarborgd.

ALMELO/ENSCHEDE - De gemeente Enschede mag het verlenen van thuiszorg niet overlaten aan de Stichting Familiehulp, onderdeel van Buurtzorg. Na het eerdere faillissement van thuiszorgorganisatie TSN is het werk onrechtmatig en onderhands aan deze partij gegund. Dat moet worden teruggedraaid.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian prosecutor demanded on Thursday jail terms of up to 18 years for suspected members of an Islamic State cell dismantled in a bloody raid in the town of Verviers last year.

Among the seven men standing trial is Marouan El Bali who survived a gunfight in January 2015 when police shot dead two armed men. Prosecutors said they had returned from fighting with Islamic State in Syria and were planning an attack in Belgium.

The prosecutor sought a 15 year term for El Bali... Читать дальше...

Amos Dudley

An undergraduate at New Jersey Institute of Technology made his own plastic braces using a 3D printer, $60 of materials, and a healthy dose of ingenuity — and they actually worked.

Amos Dudley had braces in middle school, but he didn't wear a retainer like he was supposed to, so his teeth slowly shifted back.

He didn't want to shell out thousands of dollars for a whole new round of braces, so the digital-design major decided to make his own.

On his blog,... Читать дальше...

Death toll rises to 58, expected to climb sharply

Thousands of military members who report sexual assault suffer from consequences of dishonorable discharge statute, new report says.

Bile flows among the Tories but a party split looms, writes Sebastian Payne

A group representing Japanese survivors of U.S. atomic bombings urged President Barack Obama to hear their stories and apologize when he visits Hiroshima next week.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The U.N. says five Chadian peacekeepers have been killed and three wounded after being attacked in northern Mali.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The U.N. says five Chadian peacekeepers have been killed and three wounded after being attacked in northern Mali.

Christine Poole, CEO and Managing Director at GlobeInvest Capital Management shares her top picks: Loblaw Companies, Home Depot, Walt Disney Company.

Mexican pop star Thalia earns her fourth No. 1 on Top Latin Albums (chart dated May 28) as she starts atop the chart with her latest set, Latina (3,...

The Supreme Court is making it easier for the government to deport or otherwise remove people who are not U.S. citizens if they are convicted of seemingly minor state crimes.

Barrick Gold'sPueblo Viejo mine.

New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said on Thursday he expects a 2% pace of economic growth in the second quarter after a slowdown in the first three months of the year, and anticipates further tightening in U.S. monetary policy.

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Georges Guelzec and Morinari Watanabe are in the running to replace Bruno Grandi as president of the International Gymnastics Federation.

Recon Group, a holding company owned by businessman Tony Jiantong Xia, has bought newly relegated Birmingham soccer club Aston Villa for $109 million.

NATO foreign ministers are meeting on how to handle a daunting and simultaneous array of security challenges facing the alliance, from Afghanistan and the Middle East and North Africa to a rearmed and resurgent Russia.

A Colorado school has branded a cheap bubble gun as a “safety concern” and suspended the 5-year old girl who brought it to school under its “zero tolerance” policy. The girls mother apologised but added that the move showed a lack of “common sense.” RT reports: “I apologized right away and said that I am so sorry she did that,” the mother identified only as Emma said, according to ABC-affiliate KMGH. “I appreciate that they’re trying to keep our kids safe, I really do. But there needs to be some common sense. Читать дальше...

Are we letting corrupt politicians off too lightly? ......

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's minimum wage could rise to $10.10 an hour next year under an amended proposal in the state's General Assembly.

FOREST ACRES, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of a black suspect by a white police officer in a Columbia suburb (all times local):