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Typhoon leaves 25 dead as Japan launches major rescue
Associated Press, Published on 13/10/2019
» TOKYO: Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan Sunday to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 25 with more than a dozen missing. One woman fell to her death from a rescue helicopter.
Facebook currency plan under scrutiny in Congress
Associated Press, Published on 16/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve.
World Bank unit implicated in huge Latin America graft scandal
Associated Press, Published on 02/07/2019
» BOGOTA: A unit of the World Bank has been dragged into the edges of Latin America's biggest corruption scandal.
Indonesian police say 32 dead, 1 missing in Papua attacks
Associated Press, Published on 04/12/2018
» JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Security forces tried to recover the bodies of 31 construction workers and a soldier who were killed in one of the worst separatist attacks in Indonesia's restive province of Papua, officials said Tuesday.
Malaysia lobbies for Chinese help amid fiscal woes
Associated Press, Published on 20/08/2018
» BEIJING: Malaysia's leader said Monday that he hoped China would sympathise with his country's fiscal problems as he met with the country's leaders after suspending multi-billion-dollar construction projects financed by Chinese loans.
Myanmar, UN sign pact on initial steps for Rohingya return
Associated Press, Published on 06/06/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar and UN agencies signed an agreement Wednesday that could lead to the return of some of the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled brutal persecution by the country's security forces and are now crowded into makeshift camps in Bangladesh.
'Many deaths' as US Amtrak train derails near Seattle
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2017
» DUPONT, Washington: An Amtrak passenger train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass Monday south of Seattle and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least six people, authorities said. The death toll was expected to rise.
Trump asserts all agree he has 'complete power' to pardon
Associated Press, Published on 23/07/2017
» WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has “complete power'' to issue pardons, an assertion that comes amid investigations into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.
US hearings: Putin ordered election cyberattacks
Associated Press, Published on 22/06/2017
» WASHINGTON - A sinister portrait of Russia's cyberattacks on the US emerged Wednesday as current and former US officials told Congress Moscow stockpiled stolen information and selectively disseminated it during the 2016 presidential campaign to undermine the American political process.
Worldwide cyberattack demands ransoms, cripples UK hospitals
Associated Press, Published on 13/05/2017
» LONDON - Britain's health service was hit Friday by a huge international cyberattack that froze computers at hospitals across the country - an attack that shut down wards, closed emergency rooms and brought medical treatments to a screeching halt.