Kurunegala is a major town in Sri Lanka, where it is the capital city of the North-Western province. The town of Kurunegala is based upon plain area with the exception of surrounding rock outcrops. The villagers face a scarcity of good…
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By Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE PARIS -  The archeological crypt of Notre-Dame reopens on Wednesday with an exhibition retracing the cathedral's turbulent history nearly 18 months after it was ravaged by fire. The April 2019 blaze…
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TUNIS - Tunisian authorities said Monday (07) they had arrested seven people over a knife attack the previous day that killed a National Guard officer and wounded another. The attackers struck early Sunday (06) morning in the…
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By Juliana Kim NEW YORK — To his friends, Edward James was the prime example of someone who had thrived after getting a second chance. He had been an alcoholic for years before sobering up and being hired as the caretaker at the…
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By Neil Vigdor, Christina Morales, and Bryan Pietsch NEW YORK - It should have been an idyllic Labour Day weekend, the serenity of the High Sierra region of California providing a welcome respite from protests and a pandemic.…
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By Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue TOKYO — Japanese authorities on Sunday (6) ordered more than one million residents of western Japan to seek shelter as a major storm lashed the coast with high winds and threatened record-breaking…
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By Patrick Kingsley WARSAW — Stepan Svetlov’s computer sits on a desk in Warsaw, nearly 300 miles from Minsk, the capital of Belarus. But when Belarusians poured into the streets in the hours and days after President Alexander…
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By Ben Casselman NEW YORK - Employers continued to bring back furloughed workers last month, but at a far slower pace than in the spring, and millions of Americans remain out of work. The U.S. economy added 1.4 million jobs in…
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NEW DELHI - Facebook has banned an outspoken right-wing Indian politician for spreading hate speech about Muslims as the social media giant battles accusations of bias over its handling of rival parties in the key market. T. Raja…
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BEIJING - A Chinese LGBT activist has lost her legal bid to get a university textbook corrected for describing gay people as suffering from a "common psychosexual disorder". China stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental…
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