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Singapore's riches grew under its leader, so did discontent
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2024
» SINGAPORE — Singapore was once known as an affluent and strait-laced city-state. Today, it is a glitzy international destination. It has hosted Taylor Swift concerts and Formula One-night races. And it is substantially richer, per capita, than the United States.
Iran adds prison time for Nobel winner
New York Times, Published on 16/01/2024
» The Iranian regime sentenced Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, to 15 more months in prison, her family said Monday.
At least 15 dead after a shooting rampage at a Prague university
New York Times, Published on 22/12/2023
» PRAGUE - Fourteen people were killed and more than 20 others wounded in a shooting rampage at Charles University in the Czech Republic on Thursday, the authorities said. The gunman, a 24-year-old student in world history at the university, also killed himself after the shooting spree in central Prague.
Swedish Embassy in Baghdad is set afire
New York Times, Published on 20/07/2023
» BAGHDAD: Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday and set fire to part of the building, ahead of another planned burning of the Koran in Sweden, which has angered many in the Muslim world and drawn condemnation from the Swedish authorities.
Viktor Bout’s release is hailed in Russia as a Kremlin victory
New York Times, Published on 10/12/2022
» In the West, he is known as a convicted illicit arms trafficker, "the merchant of death" who helped fuel wars around the world. But in Russia, Viktor Bout was welcomed home this week as something of a hero or at least an innocent victim of American politics.
She's a doctor. He was a limo driver. They pitched a $30m arms deal
New York Times, Published on 06/10/2022
» NEW YORK: After falling out with his partner at a limousine company in the St. Louis suburbs, Martin Zlatev recently sought a lucrative new business opportunity: selling $30 million worth of rockets, grenade launchers and ammunition to the Ukrainian military.
At the Polish border, tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees
New York Times, Published on 26/02/2022
» MEDYKA, Poland: Cradling her three-year-old son, who was gravely ill with cancer, the 25-year-old Ukrainian mother staggered into Poland on Friday.
Cambodia internet soon to be like China
New York Times, Published on 15/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them.
South Koreans face up to atrocities in Vietnam war
New York Times, Published on 22/08/2021
» SEOUL: The South Korean marine unit had a reputation for leaving nothing breathing behind when they passed through hostile territory, not even a pig suckling its litter.
Hong Kong court convicts democracy leaders
New York Times, Published on 01/04/2021
» HONG KONG: Seven of Hong Kong’s leading veteran pro-democracy advocates were found guilty Thursday of unauthorised assembly, as Beijing’s campaign to quash the city’s opposition ensnared some of its most senior and well-recognised figures.