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Poacher Salman Khan gets bail
AFP, Published on 07/04/2018
» JODHPUR, India: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was granted bail on Saturday, allowing him to contest a five-year prison sentence for killing endangered wildlife two decades ago.
Canada bus crash kills 14
AFP, Published on 07/04/2018
» NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan: Fourteen people were killed and another 14 injured after a truck collided with a bus carrying a junior hockey team to a playoff game in Western Canada.
Badminton bosses reject radical scoring change
AFP, Published on 19/05/2018
» Badminton's global governing body, meeting in Bangkok, has swatted down a plan to adopt a new scoring system that favours faster matches after players and associations expressed concern.
Romero sainthood months away
AFP, Published on 19/05/2018
» VATICAN CITY: Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, assassinated by a right-wing death squad as he said mass, and Pope Paul VI will be made saints in October, Pope Francis announced on Saturday.
Catalans challenge new Spanish PM
AFP, Published on 02/06/2018
» MADRID: Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez was sworn in as prime minister of Spain on Saturday after ousting veteran conservative Mariano Rajoy, as Catalonia's separatist president promptly called for talks over the region's independence drive.
Prayut to seal satellite deal in France, says source
AFP, Published on 15/06/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will secure the purchase of a US$215-million "non-military" observation satellite from Airbus when he visits France later this month, a diplomatic source said on Friday.
Python swallows Indonesian woman
AFP, Published on 16/06/2018
» MAKASSAR, Indonesia: An Indonesian woman has been found dead in the belly of a giant python after the swollen snake was captured near where she vanished while tending her vegetable garden.
Opec agrees to pump more oil
AFP, Published on 22/06/2018
» VIENNA: Opec members have agreed on a combined increase in crude oil output of one million barrels per day, the oil minister of the Saudi Arabia said on Friday.
Hun Sen goes ape at zoo debut
AFP, Published on 23/06/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian strongman Hun Sen took a brief break from electioneering on Saturday to watch orangutans roller skate, kickbox and dance as he opened the first major zoo in the capital.
Jogger held 2 weeks after straying across US border
AFP, Published on 23/06/2018
» A young French woman who was visiting her mother near Vancouver, Canada spent two weeks in a US detention centre after inadvertently crossing the border while jogging along a beach.