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Indonesian tsunami victims face grim clear up as hundreds of bodies pile up

10/6/2018, 9:55:57 PM
Towns have been left as dust and rubble with hundreds buried under shattered buildings in Palu City, Indonesia ✔ In this apocalyptic hell that was once a popular suburb full of families, one phrase is ­constantly repeated by dazed survivors when asked about the missing ✔ They are in desperate need of medicine, food, clean water and safe toilet facilities ✔ Each day that passes our hope of finding more people alive fades


Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market, opened in the wake of Kanto quake, reaches an end

10/6/2018, 11:19:48 PM
Old-fashioned and full of nostalgia, the renowned Tsukiji fish market is at its busiest before dawn. Hand-written signs by small-fish wholesalers are lit w ✔ When he was a child, he says it was a bit scary to go into the market because the men working there were rather rough and often fought ✔ From 1868 to 1899, some of the Tsukiji area was designated a foreign settlement, where only foreign merchants and diplomats were allowed to live via extraterritorial rights


Mexican president-elect pressures drugmakers to contain prices

10/6/2018, 8:36:44 PM
Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday urged pharmaceut... ✔ But he warned the industry his government would seek cheaper medicine elsewhere if firms overcharged and acted as accomplices to corruption ✔ Separately, the incoming president reiterated that his government would guarantee prices for certain food products, including milk, beans and corn, in order to support farmers ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


The Crown's Olivia Colman grieves at Aberfan recreation after 144 died in 1966

10/6/2018, 9:26:42 PM
The tragedy cost 116 children their lives when a colliery waste tip collapsed, and the slurry engulfed a local school ✔ (Image: Splash News) (Image: Splash News) (Image: Splash News) Read More Killing Eve Season 2 air date, cast, trailer and more But it wasn't until a week later he returned along with his wife to pay respects to those who died ✔ We all strongly felt that the Aberfan disaster and the aftermath must be included


Iran cracks down on women's rights activists as leader offers his solution to sexual harassment, assault: Cover up - Los Angeles Times

10/6/2018, 9:35:35 PM
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the one-year anniversary of the global #MeToo movement to push women to wear Islamic head scarves, ignoring the growing anger and unrest over Iran’s law that mandates women wear head scarves in public. ✔ The video begins with a shot of two-time Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman confronting former U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar in court over sexual assault allegations ✔ As President Trump imposes further sanctions on Iran, the arrests suggest how hardliners within Iran’s establishment, particularly its intelligence and security services, are gaining more control and are trying to discourage women from protesting, Ghaemi said


Fate worse than death that seems to have touched most of us

10/6/2018, 8:08:04 PM
It's called life seemingly without hope. I know that place. ✔ Opinion National Mental health Fate worse than death that seems to have touched most of us By Helen Pitt7 October 2018 12:10am Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size This week my family held a funeral for a young cousin who killed himself ✔ I looked at the sterile art on the wall, the hospital bed, the chair ✔ Men are overrepresented in suicide statistics.Credit:Tribune Life You’re right ✔ Lifeline 131 114 MensLine 1300 789 978 Beyondblue 1300 224 636


Kevin Whately recalls his holidays of a lifetime 

10/6/2018, 9:30:29 PM
Kevin Whately looks back fondly at a trip to Cowra in New South Wales, where he filmed an episode of Morse, and not so fondly at a trip to Lisbon, where he rented a 'terrible' flat. ✔ Best holiday: For an episode of Morse in Australia, we filmed a lot in Cowra in New South Wales, which has a high street like an old western town ✔ It was a lovely trip, rounded off by spending Christmas at Whale Beach with Morse’s director, producer and their families ✔ Kevin is an Ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Society and is supporting the charity’s new Game Changer app


Kavanaugh confirmed, quickly sworn in; major Trump victory

10/6/2018, 10:29:25 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice Saturday night after the bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed him. The Senate vote delivered ✔ Democrats said Kavanaugh would push the court too far, including possible sympathetic rulings for Trump should the president encounter legal problems from the special counsel's investigations into Russian connections with his 2016 presidential campaign


Kavanaugh confirmed, ready for swearing-in

10/6/2018, 10:11:52 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President D ✔ McConnell said a vote for Kavanaugh showed that the Senate was a chamber in which the politics of intimidation and personal destruction do not win the day ✔ Mitch McConnell said the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court showed the Republican Party standing up for the presumption of innocence, and he doesn't see the fight hurting his party, in fact he says it may help


‘Cultural jail’: Brexit could bring booming industry to its knees

10/6/2018, 11:39:05 PM
Top UK musicians tell PM in open letter why Europe is so important to their industry ✔ Stephen Bass, co-owner of Moshi Moshi Records, the independent that first signed Bloc Party, Kate Nash and Florence + the Machine, predicted that any change to travel rules would have a dramatic effect on the fortunes of the [bands] I look after and the crew of people involved in live shows


In D.C., a rare public display of mayoral muscle

10/6/2018, 11:28:05 PM
Bowser backs little-known candidate in effort to oust Elissa Silverman from D.C. Council ✔ She also said that she has long advocated on behalf of black residents, including most recently when she opposed the repeal of Initiative 77, a measure that was overwhelmingly supported in Ward 8 ✔ Correction: An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect name for the Apartment and Office Building Association


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