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Workers And Customers Killed In Nigeria Gas Explosion
Nigeria gas explosion; Iran hostages compensation; Cyprus holiday message
An explosion at a butane gas depot has killed dozens of people in the industrial town of Nnewi, in southeastern Nigeria.
It's emerged that Washington has approved a long-awaited compensation deal for the American hostages taken captive in Iran in 1979.
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders on the divided island of Cyprus have broadcast a joint holiday message for the first time.
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