World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Greece's radical leader Alexis Tsipras pulled off the biggest gamble of his already dramatic political career as he romped to victory in a snap election.

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TEHRAN - The head of the UN atomic watchdog has been granted access to a controversial Iranian military site where it is alleged covert research to build a nuclear bomb took place.

WELLINGTON - Thousands of people are calling for the life of a Sumatran tiger to be spared, following the death of a zookeeper in Hamilton.

LOS ANGELES - More than 1400 homes have been destroyed in two of the biggest wildfires currently burning in California, officials have confirmed, making them among the worst ever in the state.

HAVANA - Three dissidents opposed to Cuba's communist regime have been arrested as they approached Pope Francis shouting "Freedom!" as he arrived to deliver mass at Revolution Square in Havana.

WASHINGTON - Frontrunner Donald Trump has slipped in the polls after this week's Republican presidential debate while former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina shot to second place, according to a new poll.

BEREMEND - Crowded aboard buses and trains, thousands more migrants flooded into Austria from countries unable or unwilling to cope with the wave of people escaping war and poverty for a better life in western Europe.


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