26 die eating poisoned sweets in Pakistan and other top stories.

• 26 die eating poisoned sweets in Pakistan

  

  26 die eating poisoned sweets in PakistanAAPApril 26, 2016 6:51PMSavePrint A confectioner in Pakistan is thought to have mixed pesticide by mistake into a batch of sweets, leaving 26 people dead and dozens more critically ill.The order for laddo, balls of fried sweet dough popular across South Asia, was placed by a resident to celebrate the birth of his grandson in a village in the eastern province of Punjab, police told dpa.Pesticides were being kept in the sweet-maker's kitchen while the reta..

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• Chernobyl: Take a tour through Ukraine's nuclear wasteland

  

  A Canadian explorer has recalled his "nightmare" tour through the highly radioactive ruins of Chernobyl on the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in human history. In 2009 host of Angry Planet George Kourounis spent three days inside the Ukrainian city, which remains frozen in time since more than 50,000 people were given only 36 hours to evacuate on April 26, 1986. Birds chirping, animals rustling and all other natural sounds of life have been replaced by the eerie noise of wind r..

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• Canadian's beheading not an Islamic State terror act, says former Australian hostage

  

  Australian Warren Rodwell, a former hostage in the Philippines. Photo: AP Bangkok: One of Australia's longest-held kidnap victims has dismissed claims the beheading of a Canadian hostage by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines was an act of terrorism.Warren Rodwell told Fairfax Media the hostage-takers who recently declared allegiance to Islamic State killed 68 year-old John Ridsdel because a deadline to pay a ransom was not met. ..

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• Adventurer Reza Baluchi's epic 'bubble' journey ends early

  

  The rebellious seafarer first attempted his bizarre voyage in 2014. Picture: Mark Bar via Wikimedia CommonsA MAN’S attempt to “run” from Florida to Bermuda enclosed in a giant floating bubble has landed him in trouble with the US Coast Guard.An amusing photo has emerged of the Coast Guard interrupting adventurer Reza Baluchi’s epic journey in an inflatable bubble that operates similar to a hamster wheel, which he named the HydroPod.The 44-year-old Iranian planned to spend five months at sea in t..

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• Manus Island detention declared illegal

  

  Manus Island detention declared illegal

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• Pressure mounts on Bangladesh after gay activists murdered

  

  AFP on April 26, 2016, 6:49 pm Gay rights activist among two hacked to death in Bangladesh Dhaka (AFP) - Pressure mounted on Bangladesh Tuesday after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities for which only a handful of people have been convicted.At least six men carrying machetes and guns entered an apartment building in Dhaka on Monday night and killed Xulhaz Mannan, editor o..

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