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Outspoken head of Cyprus Orthodox Church dies
Outspoken head of Cyprus Orthodox Church dies
by  AFP

The leader of the Cyprus Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, has died aged 81, his doctors said Monday, after years of battling cancer. "The people of Cyprus mourn the loss of Archbishop Chrysostomos II," President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted.

Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
by  AFP

Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades. The accident comes five years after 11 people died when a plane belonging to safari company Coastal Aviation crashed in northern Tanzania.

Vietnam struggles to break one of world's biggest coal addictions
Vietnam struggles to break one of world's biggest coal addictions
by  AFP

Despite Vietnam's solar boom and ambitious climate targets, the fast-growing economy is struggling to quit dirty energy -- leaving one of the world's biggest coal power programmes largely intact. - Solar boom - After China and India, Vietnam has the world's third-largest pipeline of new coal power projects.

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