✓Hospital nursery fire kills 14 newborns in Pakistan's capital, officials order immediate inquiry
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Canada to hit U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. And, remembering music legend Dolly Parton
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Nepal flash flood live updates: more than 500 missing in Tibet, reports China, amid search for hundreds of tourists
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