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Istanbul Fire kills 2 on 8 July 2011

Two people died and 10 others were injured after a fire broke out in a three-storey building in Istanbul on Friday. The fire broke out in a residential apartment in Istanbul and claimed the life of an 11-year-old girl and a 33-year-old woman. Turkish state-run Anatolia news agency reported that 10 people were injured after jumping out of windows attempting to escape the fire. The condition of the injured is reported to be stable and the cause of the fire has yet to be determined.

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Wu Guanzhong dead at 90

Wu Guanzhong died just before midnight on Friday at a Beijing hospital, hours after donating five ink paintings to the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Wu Guanzhong, the master of Chinese painting, died at 11:57 p.m. Friday in Beijing Hospital at the age of 91. Wu, born in 1919, was a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, east China. In 1947, Wu went to France to study Western painting, and returned to China in 1950, after the founding of the People#39;s Republ

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Ethiopia Airlines jet ‘crashes into sea off Beirut’

An Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane is reported to have crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after taking off from Beirut airport.

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Iranian crowd stops execution and frees convicts

The crowd overpowered security services and helped two men convicted of robbery to escape hanging in the province of Kerman, the Fars news agency reported. The men were recaptured hours later, and justice department officials say they will be put to death on Wednesday. Iran executes more people than anywhere else in the world except China, human rights groups say

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