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Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya villages
Associated Press, Published on 23/02/2018
» First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth -- in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Woman rescued from Indonesia landslide after 13 hours
Associated Press, Published on 06/02/2018
» JAKARTA: Rescuers in Indonesia pulled a woman alive from a car trapped by a landslide for 13 hours as torrential rains caused havoc in parts of the capital and neighbouring West Java, killing at least five people.
John Mahoney, who played cranky dad on 'Frasier,' dies at 77
Associated Press, Published on 06/02/2018
» LOS ANGELES: John Mahoney, who as the cranky, blue-collar dad in "Frasier" played counterpoint to pompous sons Frasier and Niles, has died. Mahoney was 77.
At Davos, main attraction is Trump
Associated Press, Published on 24/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: One question looms as President Donald Trump packs his bags for Switzerland: How will the Diet Coke-loving nationalist fit in with the Champagne-sipping globalists he'll encounter at the World Economic Forum in Davos?
Tsunami alert cancelled after 7.9 Alaska quake
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2018
» ANCHORAGE, Alaska: A powerful earthquake struck off an island in the Gulf of Alaska, prompting a tsunami threat that sent the state's residents along the southern coast and western Canada fleeing for higher ground just after midnight Tuesday.
Turkey says border town hit by rockets from Syria
Associated Press, Published on 21/01/2018
» HASSA, Turkey: Four rockets fired from Syria hit a Turkish border town on Sunday as Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters pushed forward with an offensive to drive Syrian Kurdish forces from an enclave in northern Syria, the state-run news agency reported.
Indonesian fishermen settle human trafficking suit
Associated Press, Published on 04/01/2018
» A human trafficking lawsuit just settled between two Indonesian fishermen and an American boat owner will not impact nearly 800 other foreign fishermen in Hawaii's fleet who are banned from leaving boats when the vessels reach US shores, industry officials say.
California celebrates New Year with marijuana sales
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Californians may awaken on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales.
Brutal cold tests New York's New Year's Eve party
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» NEW YORK: Dress in layers, lay off the booze and bring some hand warmers. Those are some of the tips offered for the huge crowd of revellers expected in Times Square for what could be one of the coldest New Year's Eve ball drops on record.
'Trump country' faith unshaken
Associated Press, Published on 28/12/2017
» SANDY HOOK, Kentucky: The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.