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Library user borrows rare Chinese artwork, returns fakes: US officials
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - A California library user who allegedly took home rare Chinese manuscripts and returned fake ones in their place has been charged with $216,000-worth of theft, US officials said Thursday.
Crypto group reportedly says it planned sex toy tosses at WNBA games
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - A cryptocurrency group has said it organised a spate of "stunts" in which sex toys were tossed on courts at WNBA games, US media reported on Thursday.
Israel cabinet approves plan to seize Gaza City
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/08/2025
» JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured cabinet approval on Friday for a military takeover of Gaza City, which he described as part of a final push to topple Hamas after 22 months of fighting and recover its last 50 hostages, dead or alive.
China accuses Philippines of wrong 'words and deeds' on Taiwan
Reuters, Published on 08/08/2025
» BEIJING — China accused the Philippines on Friday of "playing with fire" after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the Southeast Asian nation would be drawn into any conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan.
US uses war rhetoric, Superman to recruit for migrant crackdown
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» LOS ANGELES - From Uncle Sam to Superman, the US government is deploying patriotic icons and increasingly warlike rhetoric to recruit Americans into enforcing Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
US raises bounty on Venezuela's Maduro to $50m
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday doubled its bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- who faces federal drug trafficking charges and whose most recent election victory was not recognised by Washington -- to $50 million.
Lebanon cabinet meets again on Hezbollah disarmament
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» BEIRUT — Lebanon's cabinet met on Thursday for the second time in days to discuss disarming Hezbollah, after the Iran-backed group rejected the government's decision to take away its weapons.
Petrochemical slide expected to persist
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 08/08/2025
» The downturn in the petrochemical industry is expected to continue until 2027, when it will begin to recover, according to analysts.
Electronics firms now gaze overseas
Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/08/2025
» The electronics sector, which employs roughly 600,000 people, has started to freeze hiring and study partial manufacturing relocation to countries with lower costs and higher production efficiency than Thailand, in a bid to minimise the impact of US tariffs, says the Electronics & Computer Employers Association.
US judge orders temporary halt to new 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction
AFP, Published on 08/08/2025
» MIAMI - A US federal judge ordered a temporary pause on Thursday to further construction of the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in a case filed by conservation groups.