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Leaving at least 20 people dead in its wake in the devastated Bahamas, Dorian made its way up the Eastern Seaboard, sweeping past Florida on Wednesday at a relatively safe distance. From there, the Category 3 storm apparently grazed Georgia, then hugged the South Carolina coast with more serious effects. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/34o2ajm

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A French court ruled on Thursday that a rooster called Maurice could continue his dawn crowing despite complaints from neighbours. Similar court cases against cows and church bells have been filed in France but none with the same emotive impact as Maurice the rooster, who has elicited letters of support from as far away as in the United States. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZAwnNe

A French court ruled on Thursday that a rooster called Maurice could continue his dawn crowing despite complaints from neighbours. Similar court cases against cows and church bells have been filed in France but none with the same emotive impact as Maurice the rooster, who has elicited letters of support from as far away as in the United States. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZAwnNe

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A car bomb rocked the Afghan capital on Thursday and smoke rose from a Kabul neighborhood housing the US Embassy, the NATO Resolute Support mission and other diplomatic missions. At least three people were killed and another 30 wounded, a hospital director said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2NSroAw

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Dominic Barton, the former global managing director of the influential consulting firm McKinsey & Co, as the new envoy. Barton is head of the Trudeau government's economic advisory council. Beijing's embassy in Ottawa said China has accepted the nomination of Barton and said the Chinese side "expects him to play a positive role in promoting the bilateral relations back to the right track." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/312O0SU

The seriously injured person is "in a state of cardiorespiratory arrest", he told AFP, using a term often employed in Japan to indicate a person's death before it is officially confirmed by a doctor. Local reports said one person -- possibly the truck driver -- was feared to be trapped under the wrecked train. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2ZMYMPs

Twitter on Wednesday halted users' ability to fire off tweets via text messages as it seeks to fix a vulnerability that led to CEO Jack Dorsey's account being hijacked. "We're temporarily turning off the ability to Tweet via SMS, or text message, to protect people's accounts," the Twitter support team wrote on the platform. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2zRPxiH

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has refused to sign the peace deal that his special representative has inked with the Taliban, mainly because it does not guarantee the continued presence of US forces in the country to defeat al-Qaida or the existence of the democratically elected government, a media report said Wednesday. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PW7Tdg

Pompeo is "declining to put his name to the deal" that has been hammered out by special US representative on Afghan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad after nine round of talks with the representatives of the Taliban in Doha, a media report said on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PW7Tdg

A rowdy rooster named Maurice will learn on Thursday if he can go on crowing as usual, after unhappy neighbours filed a lawsuit alleging noise pollution. So far the owner's efforts to silence her crooner - including placing black sheets around his coop to trick him into thinking that morning had not yet broken - have come to naught. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2LtfUAB

A rowdy rooster named Maurice will learn on Thursday if he can go on crowing as usual, after unhappy neighbours filed a lawsuit alleging noise pollution. So far the owner's efforts to silence her crooner - including placing black sheets around his coop to trick him into thinking that morning had not yet broken - have come to naught. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India https://ift.tt/2LtfUAB

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But activists rejected Wednesday's move as insufficient and vowed not to yield until the government accepts other demands including an independent investigation into alleged police brutality against protesters, the unconditional release of those detained and democracy. The bill would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China for trials. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2zUeTwg

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