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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.
1MDB graft scandal heats up Malaysia politics
Associated Press, Published on 02/05/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's image as a striving, modern nation that upholds the rule of law has been undermined by an epic corruption scandal at state investment fund 1MDB. Prime Minister Najib Razak, who set up the fund, is facing May 9 national elections that will test his legitimacy.
'Senator Tammy' still breaking barriers
Associated Press, Published on 19/02/2018
» WASHINGTON: Breaking down barriers is nothing new for Senator Tammy Duckworth, and that's the way she likes it.
New book leaves Trump furious, 'disgusted' with Bannon
Associated Press, Published on 05/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on former top adviser Steve Bannon, responding to a new book that portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child who didn't actually want to win the White House and quotes Bannon as calling his son's contact with a Russian lawyer "treasonous."
'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.
As girlfriend returns to US, Vegas gunman's profile emerges
Associated Press, Published on 04/10/2017
» LAS VEGAS: The Las Vegas gunman's girlfriend, back in the United States after a weeks-long trip abroad, will be at the centre of the investigation into the shooting deaths of 59 people as authorities try to determine why a man with no known record of violence or crime would open fire on a concert crowd from a high-rise hotel.
Former loyalists lose faith in Myanmar's democracy icon
Associated Press, Published on 29/08/2017
» YANGON -- As Aung San Suu Kyi launched a national struggle against decades of harsh military rule, one medical student worked tirelessly at her side, facing down gun-wielding soldiers trying to crush the surging pro-democracy movement.
In N. Korea, a generation gap grows behind the propaganda
Associated Press, Published on 30/07/2017
» PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- She dances beneath portraits of two smiling dictators, a modern young woman in a central Pyongyang plaza who twirls to music calling on North Koreans to die for their leader.
Ivanka Trump: A White House force, just not an 'employee'
Associated Press, Published on 24/03/2017
» WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump will have a security clearance, a West Wing office and the ear of her father on important policy matters. But do not call her an employee.
World considers a Trump presidency, and many shudder
Associated Press, Published on 03/03/2016
» BRUSSELS -- Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing possibility the brash New York billionaire might become America's next president -- a thought that aroused widespread befuddlement and a good deal of horror.