s death. "In fact I don't think there is any school in the country that would go." The assistant coroner for south London, Selena Lynch, returned a finding of misadventure. The inquest in Bromley, south-east London, heard that Samuel collapsed on 17 July 2012 while trekking in the foothills of the High Atlas mountains in temperatures of 39C. A local guide was asked to get an ambulance but more than...
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The U.S. and Arab allies launched a second major wave of airstrikes in Syria targeting mobile oil refineries controlled by Islamic State, the Pentagon said....