02

Merchiston Intl.

School opens in SZ

The first British international boarding school in Shenzhen, Merchiston International School, held its official opening ceremony Saturday

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05

Saudi Arabia

vows retaliation

if punished

Saudi Arabia warned it would retaliate against any sanctions imposed on the oil-rich kingdom over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as the Riyadh stock market plunged on growing investor jitters

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06

Woman falls to

death while taking

selfie on balcony

A woman tragically fell to her death from a balcony on the 27th floor of a high-rise block in Panama after she lost her balance while taking a selfie

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07

Baumann, rising

star in Olympic

circles, dies at 51

Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of basketball’s world governing body who was seen as a potential IOC president, has died of an unexpected heart attack at the Youth Olympics

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08

Winning the last

battle against

poverty

China, which has lifted 740 million people in rural areas out of poverty from 1978 to 2017, in August released a three-year guideline on winning the battle against poverty to prepare the nation for eradicating poverty by 2020