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Syria conflict:
76,000 die in deadliest year
3 Jan BBC
The year 2014 was the deadliest year yet in
Syria's four-year conflict, with over 76,000 killed, activists
say.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 17,790 of
the dead were civilians, including 3,501 children.
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Concern as Japan's 2014 birth rate falls to record low
3 Jan BBC
Japan's birth rate slumped to a record low in
2014, health ministry figures show, dropping to 1,001,000 newborns
in 2014 - 9,000 fewer than in 2013.The fall is the fourth in
consecutive years and comes as the estimated number of deaths
continues to rise, at just under 1.3 million last year.
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Pakistan gives hoax bomb culprit 26 years
3 Jan SRK News
A Pakistani court has sentenced a man accused of
making two false bomb threats in the country’s Punjab province to 26
years in jail. Rana Yousuf carried out the threats in July in a busy
market place and the Shams children’s park in the central city of
Multan on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr,
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