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AFP, Published on 02/03/2022
» HONG KONG: Overflowing hospitals, empty supermarket shelves and grim quarantine camps -- Hong Kong is in chaos battling a ballooning Covid outbreak in a business hub once renowned for its efficiency.
AFP, Published on 11/09/2021
» VENICE - The Venice Film Festival roared back to life this year with a starry and feminist-tinged selection that leaves the competition wide open for who will take home the Golden Lion on Saturday.
AFP, Published on 30/11/2020
» BEIRUT - Few of the pro-democracy protesters who took the Middle East by storm a decade ago had a flag to raise or a leader to follow. But all of them had a song to sing.
AFP, Published on 23/05/2016
» HANOI - Barack Obama will meet communist Vietnam's senior leaders on Monday, kicking off a landmark visit that caps two decades of post-war rapprochement, as both countries look to push trade and check Beijing's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
AFP, Published on 20/05/2016
» WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will try to turn the page on a war-strewn history with Vietnam and Japan when he begins a two-nation Asia visit Monday, including a somber pilgrimage to Hiroshima, site of the world's first nuclear attack.
AFP, Published on 10/05/2016
» WASHINGTON - Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Hiroshima during a trip to Japan later this month, the White House said Tuesday.
AFP, Published on 09/10/2013
» US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated economist Janet Yellen to lead the Federal Reserve in a move expected to sustain the Fed's easy money policies and its focus on cutting joblessness.