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Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage
AFP, Published on 21/10/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO - Popular internet services ranging from streaming platforms to messaging services to banking were offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network, illustrating the extent to which internet life depends on the tech titan.
UK vows to speed up asylum claims as hotel protests spread
AFP, Published on 24/08/2025
» LONDON - The UK government vowed on Sunday to overhaul its asylum system after weekend protests broke out across the country at hotels housing migrants, with more planned.
Rare earth production outside China 'major milestone'
AFP, Published on 23/05/2025
» An Australian firm's production of a heavy rare earth, a first outside of China, is a "major milestone" in diversifying a critical supply chain dominated by Beijing, experts say.
Zheng, Andreeva win as rain lashes Australian Open on day one
AFP, Published on 12/01/2025
» MELBOURNE - Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen overcame a sluggish start to blast into the Australian Open second round Sunday as storms caused havoc ahead of Aryna Sabalenka beginning her quest for a historic third consecutive crown.
UK PM Sunak faces leadership test over Rwanda plan
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» LONDON - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday sought to avoid a humiliating defeat for his latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda that have split his ruling Conservative party.
Top UK court rejects Rwanda migrant policy
AFP, Published on 15/11/2023
» LONDON - The UK Supreme Court rejected Wednesday a controversial government plan to send migrants to Rwanda and upheld a lower court ruling that it was unlawful, in a major setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Rwanda 'safe' for deported asylum seekers: UK court told
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» LONDON: The UK government on Monday insisted that Rwanda is an appropriate place to deport failed asylum seekers, as it tried to overturn a court ruling that the policy is unlawful.
UK minister questions relevance of UN refugee convention
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» LONDON - UK interior minister Suella Braverman is preparing to question whether the United Nations Refugee Convention is "fit for our modern age" during a keynote speech on Tuesday at a think-tank in Washington.
Migrant crossings of English Channel top 100,000 since 2018
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» LONDON: More than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel on small boats from France to southeast England since Britain began publicly recording the arrivals in 2018, official figures revealed on Friday.
Senior doctors in England stage rare walk out
AFP, Published on 20/07/2023
» LONDON - English hospitals were braced Thursday for the latest doctors' strike to hit the state-run health service with managers warning it will leave "routine care virtually at a standstill".