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Smart but no friends
Oped, Postbag, Published on 29/07/2023
» Re: "Consider the people's will", (Editorial, July 27).
Romania brings Andrew Tate down to earth
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» Andrew Tate, a pugilistic online influencer and self-crowned "king of toxic masculinity", never made any secret of why he had chosen Romania as his home and business base.
First Korea-Japan summit in four years planned
Published on 09/03/2023
» SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will visit Japan next week, his office said on Thursday, as the two neighbours try to ease diplomatic strains over Japan’s wartime atrocities during its 35-year colonial rule.
Seoul announces plan to compensate victims of Japan wartime forced labour
AFP, Published on 06/03/2023
» SEOUL: South Korea announced plans Monday to compensate victims of Japan's forced wartime labour, aiming to end a "vicious cycle" in the Asian powers' relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North.
Italy's Berlusconi acquitted in starlet bribery trial
AFP, Published on 15/02/2023
» An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing witnesses to lie about his notorious "bunga bunga" parties, bringing closure to a years-long sex scandal.
The women who lived as sex slaves to an Indian goddess
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BELGAUM, India: Dedicated to an Indian goddess as a child, Huvakka Bhimappa's years of sexual servitude began when her uncle took her virginity, raping her in exchange for a saree and some jewellery.
Evil still lurks
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 08/07/2022
» Online sex crimes against women and minors have become a scourge since the advent of digital technology.
QAnon joins vigilantes at US border
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/06/2022
» The 15 migrant children, weary and hungry, stumbled towards a gap in the rust-coloured border wall that soars between Mexico and Arizona, nearing the end of their two-week trek north. Unexpectedly, a man in a cap emblazoned with a blackened American flag -- traditionally, a message that "no quarter" will be given to the enemy -- approached them and coaxed them to his campsite.
Holy murder mystery on a wealthy island
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» Not much happens of note on Shelter Island, New York, all 3,240 bucolic hectares of it. Sandwiched between Long Island's North and South Forks, it is the kind of place where people seem to know one another, where car doors are often left unlocked and where, for about 20 years, the most bothersome problem has been Lyme disease-carrying black-legged ticks.