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June 5, 2015
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2015-06-05
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A bomb explodes in a marketplace in
Yola
,
Nigeria
, killing 31 and injuring dozens of others.
(AP)
,
(CNN)
Two people are killed and more than a hundred injured as bombs explode at rallies held by the pro-
Kurdish
Peoples' Democratic Party
two days ahead of the
general election
in
Diyarbakir
.
(AP)
Business and economy
Nestlé
temporarily removes its
Maggi
noodles
product from the shelves in
India
following a health scare.
(Economic Times)
Disasters and accidents
Sinking of the
Dong Fang Zhi Xing
The death toll from the sinking of the ship on the
Yangtze River
rises to 82 with officials giving up hope of finding more survivors. Only 15 out of over 450 people on the boat were rescued.
(Sky News Australia)
Two bodies have been removed from
Borneo's
Mount Kinabalu
following the 6.1
magnitude earthquake
that hit
Malaysia
's
Sabah
province Friday morning. Previously-stranded climbers, reported at 137, have descended to the Laban Rata resthouse.
(
The Star
)
(CNN)
(Asia Straits Times)
(The Rakyat Post)
2015 Accra explosion
The death toll from an explosion at a gasoline station on Wednesday in the
Ghanaian
capital
Accra
rises to over 200.
(Zee News)
Health
2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in South Korea
Four people have now died of
MERS
in
South Korea
with five new cases reported.
(AFP via
Bangkok Post
)
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International relations
Benigno Aquino
, the
President of the Philippines
, says that his government will start discussions with
Japan
about allowing
Japan Self-Defense Forces
to refuel at Filipino bases allowing the extension of operations into the
South China Sea
.
(Reuters via
Daily Mail
)
Law and crime
Eight out of the ten allegedly involved in shooting
Pakistani
schoolgirl and
Nobel Peace Prize
winner
Malala Yousafzai
have been secretly set free.
(BBC)
Prosecutors in the state of
Minnesota
file criminal charges against the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis
for allegedly mishandling sexual abuse allegations by a priest.
(
New York Times
)
Politics and elections
Romania
's
National Anticorruption Directorate
announces that it is investigating the
Prime Minister
Victor Ponta
for alleged money laundering, forgery and corruption. Ponta denies the allegations and is refusing to stand down.
(CNN)
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