Greek PM welcomes Idomeni evacuation and other top stories.

• Greek PM welcomes Idomeni evacuation

  

  For a second day, people have been voluntarily boarding buses departing from the Idomeni camp. The area where up to 12,000 people lived in squalid conditions for months is now a sea of mostly abandoned tents, which are gradually being cleared away with bulldozers. Charles Boian, from the United Nations refugee agency, expects the site to be completely empty in a matter of days. "Some people are being transferred to other sites, others are leaving of their own volition and looking for other opti..

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• Muslim schoolboys told to shake hands with female teacher or face £3500 fine in Switzerland

  

  Muslim schoolboys in Switzerland have been told they must shake their female teachers' hands or see their parents pay a fine of up to 5,000 francs (£3,500). The Canton of Basel-Landschaft said it would enforce the rule in all cases following an incident that caused uproar at a school in Therwil earlier this year, when two students refused to shake their teacher's hand because they said physical contact with a woman outside their family went against their religion. The pupils were given a tempor..

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• Indian teen mum gives birth to heaviest baby girl in history

  

  Indian teen mum gives birth to heaviest baby girl in history Last updated 09:44, May 26 2016 Twitter She doesn't have a name yet, but weighs the same as an average 6-month-old. A record-breaking baby has been born in India. The Telegraph reports the baby girl, born this week to a 19-year-old woman known only as Nandini, is believed to be the heaviest female ever born.The 15-pounds ..

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• This 6-month-old just became 'the youngest water-skier.' Not everyone was thrilled.

  

  In this photo taken from a video made available by World Barefoot Center, 6-month-old Zyla St. Onge water-skis across Lake Silver in Winter Haven, Fla. on Thursday, May 19, 2016. (World Barefoot Center via AP) First, baby Zyla St. Onge tried her trick on cushy, beige carpet. With reassuring adult hands hovering just in case, the 6-month old in a bright pink dress planted her tiny feet atop the planks, bright white and bolted together for safety. Her eager hands gripped the bar before her. W..

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• Child sex offenders in Indonesia to face execution or chemical castration

  

  Australian man Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, currently in jail in Bali on child molestation charges. Photo: Supplied Jakarta: Child sex offenders could be executed or chemically castrated in Indonesia under a crackdown following the brutal gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.Indonesia, especially Bali, is a blackspot for Australian paedophiles - in 2014 it eclipsed Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia to become the number one destination for Australian..

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• Brexit 'Votein' ad attracts ridicule

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Brexit 'Votein' ad attracts ridicule If backers of Britain staying in the EU thought their ad would connect with the youth vote, they seem to have badly misjudged their audience. PT0M39S 620 349 A prominent British politician has challenged Malcolm Turnbull to open Australia's borders and economy to Indonesia and Japan, in a rebuff to the government's support for Britain to stay in the European Union.Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, a member o..

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• Troubled Cambodian Leadership Tested Sorely Over Beatings

  

  PHNOM PENH— A Cambodian court will rule shortly on charges brought against three military personnel who have confessed to beating two opposition politicians outside the National Assembly in October. The judicial outcome is being widely viewed as a litmus test for human rights in Cambodia, where a government crackdown on dissent has resulted in a profusion of lawsuits and the jailing of opposition politicians and their supporters. Kung Sophea and Nhay Chamraoen of the Cambodian National Rescue P..

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• Ukraine pilot, 2 Russians released in prisoner swap

  

  KIEV, Ukraine -- Russia freed Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko on Wednesday after holding her for nearly two years, with President Vladimir Putin pardoning her as part of a swap for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president sent his plane to pick up Savchenko in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and to take her to Kiev, where she received a hero's welcome. "Thank you everyone for fighting for me!" she told journalists at Kiev's Borispol Airport. "You fought for everyone..

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• Obama 'neglecting suffering of Korean Hiroshima survivors'

  

  The bitter legacy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the US military presence on Okinawa are threatening to cast a shadow over Barack Obama’s last G7 summit as US president. As Obama and other world leaders sat down to a working lunch in Ise-Shima to discuss the state of the global economy on Thursday, Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bombing in August 1945 accused him of neglecting their suffering ahead of his visit to the city on Friday – the first by a sitting US president. While many J..

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