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Japan begins trials for disaster info service for tourists
Published on 15/04/2019
» OSAKA: A government bureau in western Japan began trials on Monday for their multilingual smartphone-based service to provide overseas tourists with disaster information after a number of natural disasters hit the area last summer.
Police nab Pakistani passport forger with IS links
AFP, Published on 19/01/2018
» A Pakistani passport forger whose fakes may have been sold to Islamic State operatives has been arrested in Thailand, police said Friday, ending a career that helped people slip into Europe illegally.
Trump era encourages world's strongmen: rights group
Associated Press, Published on 18/01/2018
» PARIS: Human Rights Watch said Thursday that new intolerance in countries like the US is encouraging oppressive strongmen around the world.
Trump unveils 'Fake News Awards'
AFP, Published on 18/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted "Fake News Awards" late Wednesday, hours after a maverick senator from the president's own Republican party accused him of employing Stalinist language to "slur" and undermine the free press.
'Hijab attack' condemned by Trudeau exposed as fake
Published on 16/01/2018
» TORONTO: An 11-year-old Toronto girl's claim that she was assaulted by a man who tried to cut off her hijab never happened, Toronto police said Monday.
Hawaii panics over false North Korean missile alert
Associated Press, Published on 15/01/2018
» HONOLULU: The second recent blunder in Hawaii's planning for a possible North Korean nuclear attack left islanders shaken after an emergency alert warning of an imminent strike sounded on hundreds of thousands of cellphones.
Rohingya survivors dispute Myanmar army massacre account
Published on 12/01/2018
» BALUKHALI, Bangladesh: Rohingya Muslims who fled a village where Myanmar has admitted its forces helped massacre 10 people said Thursday the victims were all civilians, not fighters as asserted by the army.
Fake data scandal in Japan spreads
Business, Kyodo News, Published on 24/11/2017
» TOKYO: Mitsubishi Materials Corp said yesterday that three of its subsidiaries have falsified specification data for products supplied to the aerospace, automotive and electric power industries.
Malaysia nabs 7 terror suspects, foils car bomb plot
Kyodo News, Published on 06/03/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian police said Sunday that an Islamic State car bomb plot has been foiled with seven suspects arrested.