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About 1,000 tourists trapped in Xinjiang after avalanches
Reuters, Published on 16/01/2024
» BEIJING - Around 1,000 tourists remain stranded in a remote holiday village after avalanches hit China's northwestern Xinjiang region with metres-high snow and fickle weather impeding evacuation, state TV reported on Tuesday.
Asean envoy meets Myanmar junta chief
Published on 11/01/2024
» Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has met with a new Asean special envoy as Laos takes over chairing the bloc, which has struggled to promote peace efforts in the country.
UK to clear Post Office scandal victims
Published on 10/01/2024
» LONDON - The British government plans to introduce new legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office managers in "one of the greatest miscarriages of justice" in the country’s history, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday.
Arson and looting as police strike in Papua New Guinea
Published on 10/01/2024
» Shops and businesses were attacked and set on fire in the capital of Papua New Guinea on Wednesday and people had been killed, the governor said, after police went on strike over pay.
Alaska Airlines plane lands safely after blowout
Published on 06/01/2024
» LOS ANGELES - An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing on Friday in Portland, Oregon after a section of the fuselage blew out shortly after departure, according to US media reports.
Japan Airlines flight was cleared to land before fiery collision
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/01/2024
» TOKYO - As Japan Airlines Co. Flight 516 approached Tokyo’s Haneda Airport late on Tuesday afternoon, all signs pointed to an uneventful conclusion to the routine one-and-a-half hour journey from Sapporo in northern Japan.
Deepfakes deceive voters from India to Indonesia before polls
Reuters, Published on 03/01/2024
» LONDON - Divyendra Singh Jadoun was busy making artificial intelligence-based visual effects and voice clones for film and television in India, when he began getting calls from politicians: could he create AI videos, or deepfakes, for their election campaign?
Thirteen dead in Japan after major quake topples buildings
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/01/2024
» TOKYO - At least 13 people were killed and scores injured in a powerful earthquake that hit off the Noto Peninsula on Japan’s northwest coast, toppling buildings, buckling roads and triggering a blaze that ripped through a city.
At least 6 die as earthquake, tsunamis strike Japan
Published on 01/01/2024
» TOKYO: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 rocked a wide area on the Sea of Japan coast Monday, with a large tsunami warning issued for the central prefecture of Ishikawa, authorities said.
'Rude and inappropriate': Sophie Marceau remembers Depardieu
AFP, Published on 28/12/2023
» PARIS - Sophie Marceau, one of France's best-loved actors, said in an interview published Thursday that film icon Gerard Depardieu, accused of rape, was "rude and inappropriate" when they worked together, and targeted women with low-level jobs on set, not the stars.