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Southeast Asia stocks fall ahead of Powell speech
Published on 24/08/2018
» Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Friday after Sino-US trade talks ended without any major breakthrough, while investors braced for a speech from US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for clues on the direction of monetary policy.
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Key 1MDB figure faces laundering charges
Published on 24/08/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has charged fugitive financier Low Taek Jho with money laundering and is seeking Interpol’s help to locate and arrest him, tightening the net around a central figure behind the alleged embezzlement of funds from the state investment company 1MDB.
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7.1-magnitude quake hits Peru-Brazil border
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» LIMA: A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Peru's border with Brazil on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but national authorities said there were no initial reports of casualties or damage in the sparsely populated region.
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Thai lifters win fifth medal
Published on 24/08/2018
» JAKARTA: Rattanawan Wamalun won Thailand’s fifth weightlifting medal of the Asian Games on Friday, taking bronze in the 63kg women’s event won by Kim Hyo-sim.
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Trump mocks Attorney General Sessions viciously, again
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump tore into Attorney General Jeff Sessions again Friday, mocking him viciously a day after Sessions took the rare step of fighting back against criticism from the president.
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Zimbabwe court dismisses opposition bid to annul election
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» HARARE - Zimbabwe's top court Friday dismissed an opposition bid to have presidential election results annulled over alleged rigging in favour of Robert Mugabe's successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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Japan swim queen Ikee scoops record sixth Asian Games gold
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» JAKARTA: Japan's golden girl Rikako Ikee stormed to a record sixth Asian Games swimming title on Friday, marking a handful of other firsts for good measure.
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'Things are going to break': Hawaii braces for major hurricane
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» HAWAIIAN OCEAN VIEW (UNITED STATES) - Torrential rains pummeled Hawaii on Friday as Hurricane Lane swirled toward the island state, triggering landslides, "catastrophic" flooding and prompting stark warnings from authorities.
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Trump attacks make conservative Sessions an unlikely champion for president's opponents
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» WASHINGTON - Arch-conservative Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become an unlikely champion of opponents of Donald Trump as the president again hammered him Friday.
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Veteran US senator McCain ends cancer treatment
AFP, Published on 24/08/2018
» WASHINGTON - Veteran US senator and war hero John McCain -- a towering figure in American politics for decades -- has stopped treatment for brain cancer, his family announced Friday, one year after the Republican went public with his diagnosis.
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