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President Trump impeached by US House on 2 charges
Associated Press, Published on 19/12/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday night, only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the constitution's ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Pope Francis calls for action to safeguard women, children
Associated Press, Published on 21/11/2019
» Pope Francis called for migrants to be made welcome and women and children to be protected from exploitation, abuse and enslavement as he began a busy two days of activities in Thailand on Thursday.
Indonesia province shuts schools as haze from fires returns
Associated Press, Published on 14/10/2019
» PALEMBANG, Indonesia: Thick, noxious haze from new deliberately set fires blanketed parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday after days of improving air quality, causing school closings and flight delays.
Indonesia arrests hundreds linked to forest fires
Associated Press, Published on 19/09/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesian police said Thursday that they have arrested 230 people suspected of starting fires that are spreading health-damaging haze across a large part of Southeast Asia.
US priest accused of abusing boys for decades in Philippines
Associated Press, Published on 09/09/2019
» TALUSTUSAN, Philippines: The American priest's voice echoed over the phone line, his sharp Midwestern accent softened over the decades by a gentle Filipino lilt.
Typhoon kills 5 in North Korea, 3 in South Korea
Associated Press, Published on 08/09/2019
» SEOUL, South Korea: One of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Korean Peninsula has left five people dead and three injured in North Korea, state media reported Sunday, in its first public announcement of casualties since the storm made landfall in the country a day earlier.
Climate change turns Greenland into strategic, economic hotspot
Associated Press, Published on 23/08/2019
» TASIILAQ, Greenland: From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.
Car crash in Cairo kills 19
Associated Press, Published on 05/08/2019
» CAIRO: A multiple-car crash on a Cairo street in front of Egypt's main cancer hospital set off an explosion that triggered a fire outside the building, killing a total of 19 people, authorities said Monday.
Hun Sen denies allowing China naval base
Associated Press, Published on 22/07/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday strongly denied that he was allowing China to set up a military outpost in the country, after a news report alleged that the two nations signed a secret pact allowing Beijing exclusive use of a naval base on the Gulf of Thailand.