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Landmark gun-safety bill heads to US House after Senate passage
Reuters, Published on 24/06/2022
» WASHINGTON: The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives moved quickly on Friday to take up a package of modest measures intended to stem gun violence, a day after a Supreme Court ruling that broadly expanded gun rights.
Cattle, buffalo movements curbed amid skin disease outbreak
Reuters, Published on 23/05/2021
» The government has ordered strict controls on the movement of cattle and buffaloes after an outbreak of a virus that causes lumps to form on the animals' skin and can reduce milk production, a government official said on Sunday.
Indonesia says 'Jurassic Park' project no threat to Komodo dragon
Reuters, Published on 27/10/2020
» JAKARTA: Indonesia's environment ministry on Tuesday sought to calm outrage over construction of an island tourism project being dubbed "Jurassic Park", after an image went viral on social media of a Komodo dragon facing off with a big truck.
Malaysian PM stands by Kashmir comments despite India palm oil boycott
Reuters, Published on 22/10/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday he would not retract his criticism of New Delhi's actions in disputed Kashmir despite Indian traders calling for an unprecedented boycott of Malaysian palm oil.
US says Facebook fugitive arrested in Ecuador
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2018
» NEW YORK: The New York man who spent nearly 3½ years as a fugitive after being charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg out of half of the social media company has been arrested in Ecuador and may be extradited, US prosecutors said on Thursday.
Pro-Trump US congressman indicted for insider trading
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» NEW YORK: Christopher Collins, a Republican US congressman from New York state who was one of President Donald Trump's earliest supporters, was criminally charged on Wednesday with taking part in an insider trading scheme involving an Australian biotechnology company on whose board he served.
Prayers and buffalo races at Cambodia's Festival of the Dead
Reuters, Published on 20/09/2017
» KANDAL, Cambodia, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds gathered on Wednesday to watch horse and buffalo races at Vihear Sour Pagoda, northeast of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on the last day of the annual Festival of the Dead.
Eclipse chasers put small US towns on the map
Business, Reuters, Published on 20/07/2017
» Driggs, Idaho: Hyrum Johnson, mayor of the tiny city of Driggs, Idaho, expects some craziness in his one-stoplight town next month when the moon passes in front of the sun for the first total solar eclipse in the lower 48 US states since 1979.
Indian Ocean debris 'almost certainly' from MH370
Reuters, Published on 31/07/2015
» SAINT-DENIS, Reunion - Plane debris washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion is almost certainly part of a Boeing 777, a Malaysian official said, potentially providing some closure for families of those aboard last year's vanished flight MH370.