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Dunkin' Donuts pulls 'racist' ad
AFP, Published on 03/09/2013
» Dunkin' Donuts said it is pulling a Thai advert featuring a woman with black face make-up after a human rights group criticised it as "racist".
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Emerging from obscurity: 2019's unforeseen history-makers
AFP, Published on 04/12/2019
» PARIS: Of the many people who made history in 2019, some surprised themselves and the world by emerging from obscurity to make their mark, though one remains anonymous for the time being -- "The Whistleblower" behind the impeachment probe into US President Donald Trump.
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Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport 'fears death' if repatriated
AFP, Published on 06/01/2019
» A Saudi woman held at Bangkok airport said she would be killed if she was repatriated by Thai immigration officials, who confirmed the 18-year-old was denied entry to the country on Sunday.
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Fear and isolation for Myanmar's remaining Rohingya
AFP, Published on 05/04/2018
» MRAUK U, Myanmar: By the twisted standards of Myanmar's Rakhine state, Abdullah is one of its more fortunate Rohingya residents.
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Clashes rock edge of Syria's Ghouta despite 'truce'
AFP, Published on 28/02/2018
» BEIRUT - Syrian regime forces clashed Wednesday with rebels on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta despite a "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia and now in its second day, a monitor said.
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Trump praises Saudi Arabia for lower oil prices
AFP, Published on 21/11/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ignored criticism that he gave Saudi Arabia a free pass on the murder of a dissident journalist, instead praising the Islamic kingdom for keeping oil prices low.
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Malala leaves Pakistan after emotional visit
AFP, Published on 02/04/2018
» ISLAMABAD: Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai Monday left for Britain after an emotional four-day visit to Pakistan, officials said.
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Senegal's street-begging children show limits of 'apptivism'
News, AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» Mamadou is a child beggar wandering the streets of Dakar, perilously darting in and out of traffic as he tries to gather enough money for his Islamic teacher to feed him.
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Myanmar migrants haunted by memory of tsunami missing in Thailand
AFP, Published on 21/12/2014
» BAN NAM KHEM, PHANGNGA - A decade after towering waves wrenched her newborn baby from her arms, Mi Htay remains haunted by memories of the children she lost in the tsunami whose bodies, like hundreds of other Myanmar migrants in Thailand, were never identified.
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Indonesia police's rubber bullets hurt 8
AFP, Published on 23/10/2012
» Indonesian police fired rubber bullets on students at a pro-independence rally in the restive region of Papua on Tuesday, in clashes that injured at least eight protesters, witnesses said.
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