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- 25 April 2018: India: Jammu and Kashmir government orders private tuitions to shut down for 90 days
- 25 April 2018: Scottish man sentenced over ‘grossly offensive’ joke on YouTube
- 23 April 2018: 28-year-old Swedish electronic dance music artist Avicii dies in Oman
- 23 April 2018: English football: Arsène Wenger to leave Arsenal at season end
- 23 April 2018: India: Cabinet approves capital punishment for rape of girls under age twelve
- 21 April 2018: NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS
- 14 April 2018: United States Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announces retirement
- 14 April 2018: Football: Spanish striker Fernando Torres to leave Atlético Madrid after season end
- 12 April 2018: Russian poet Alexander Byvshev convicted for 2015 poem about Ukraine
- 10 April 2018: Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence
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- Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence
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- 28-year-old Swedish electronic dance music artist Avicii dies in Oman
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- India: Jammu and Kashmir government orders private tuitions to shut down for 90 days
- India: Cabinet approves capital punishment for rape of girls under age twelve
- United States Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announces retirement
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- NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS
- China’s Tiangong-1 space station crashes into Pacific
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- English football: Arsène Wenger to leave Arsenal at season end
- Football: Spanish striker Fernando Torres to leave Atlético Madrid after season end
- Australian cricketers Steve Smith, David Warner banned from 2018 Indian Premier League after ball tampering incident
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- Kenyan conservancy euthanises last male northern white rhino; only two females remain
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- Sydney experiences hottest March day in 35 years
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- Scottish man sentenced over ‘grossly offensive’ joke on YouTube
- 28-year-old Swedish electronic dance music artist Avicii dies in Oman
- English football: Arsène Wenger to leave Arsenal at season end
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- 28-year-old Swedish electronic dance music artist Avicii dies in Oman
- Iran: Wreckage found of plane crashed in mountains; all believed dead
- ‘Save the Children’ organisation suspends all activities in Afghanistan after ISIL attack
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- NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS
- Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence
- US Republicans query Linux Foundation about open-source security
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