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China premier warns 2023 growth target 'no easy task'
AFP, Published on 13/03/2023
» BEIJING - China's new premier warned Monday that the country's five-percent growth target for 2023 would not be "easy" to achieve, as its rubber-stamp parliament wrapped up over a week of meetings.
China's Xi handed historic third term as president
AFP, Published on 10/03/2023
» Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country's most powerful leader in generations.
A week as king: how has Charles III fared?
AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» King Charles III has in the last week faced the difficult task of handling his own grief at the death of his mother, giving voice to the nation's loss and taking on the job of royal figurehead.
Sri Lankans return to cooking with firewood as economy burns
AFP, Published on 06/07/2022
» NEHINNA, Sri Lanka: As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything from medicines to gas, people are returning to cooking with firewood.
'No justice': N.Ireland marks 'Bloody Sunday' amid Brexit backdrop
AFP, Published on 30/01/2022
» LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, UK: The Northern Irish city of Londonderry commemorates one of the darkest days in modern UK history on Sunday when, 50 years ago, British troops opened fire without provocation on civil rights protesters.
Taliban victory sparks hopes of peace in rural Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 08/11/2021
» DASHTAN (AFGHANISTAN) - In the villages that once bore the brunt of Afghanistan's frontline fighting, the Taliban victory has broken a cycle of air strikes, gun battles and funerals.
N. Korea tests anti-aircraft missile
AFP, Published on 01/10/2021
» SEOUL - North Korea has successfully fired a new anti-aircraft missile, state media said Friday, the latest in a flurry of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed nation.
N. Korea's Kim condemns US dialogue offer as 'petty trick'
AFP, Published on 30/09/2021
» SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un condemned a US offer of dialogue as a "petty trick", state media reported Thursday, and accused the Joe Biden administration of continuing a hostile policy against his nuclear-armed country.
Hong Kong group behind huge democracy rallies disbands
AFP, Published on 15/08/2021
» HONG KONG: The Hong Kong protest coalition that organised record-breaking democracy rallies two years ago said Sunday it was disbanding in the face of China's sweeping clampdown on dissent in the city.
Myanmar crackdown death toll passes 500
AFP, Published on 30/03/2021
» YANGON: More than 500 people have been killed in the Myanmar junta's brutal crackdown on protests against its coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a local monitoring group said Tuesday.