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Ram Dass, LSD proponent turned spiritual guru, dies at 88
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2019
» HONOLULU: Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and travelled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88.x
Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Hong Kong tells US to stay out, students form protest chains
Associated Press, Published on 09/09/2019
» HONG KONG: Thousands of students are forming human chains in schools across Hong Kong to show solidarity after violent weekend clashes to push for democratic reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Australia moves to stop foreign interference in universities
Associated Press, Published on 28/08/2019
» CANBERRA: The government has set up a task force to crack down on attempts by foreign governments to meddle in Australian universities.
Forget 'manmade': Berkeley bans gender-specific words
Associated Press, Published on 19/07/2019
» BERKELEY, United States: There will be no manholes in Berkeley, California. City workers will drop into "maintenance holes'' instead.
Malaysia shuts 400 schools after chemical pollution sickens kids
Associated Press, Published on 25/06/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's government has shut more than 400 schools in a southern state after chemical pollution sickened dozens of students for the second time in three months.
Bus crashes into gorge in India's Kashmir, killing 35
Associated Press, Published on 01/07/2019
» SRINAGAR, India: An overcrowded minibus crashed into a gorge in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least 35 people, officials said.
Quarantines at 2 LA universities amid measles outbreak
Associated Press, Published on 26/04/2019
» LOS ANGELES: More than 200 students and staff at two Los Angeles universities have been placed under quarantine because they may have been exposed to measles and either have not been vaccinated or cannot verify that they are immune, officials said Thursday.
Tsunami hits without warning in Indonesia, killing over 220
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2018
» CARITA BEACH, Indonesia: Witnesses say a deadly tsunami that killed at least 222 people along Indonesia's Sunda Strait came with no warning.
Deadly bombing in Colombia underscores lingering threats
Associated Press, Published on 18/01/2019
» BOGOTA: Colombian authorities were scrambling to identify who was behind a brazen car bombing at a police academy in Bogota that has rattled residents and raised tough questions about lingering security threats in the wake of a peace deal with the nation's largest rebel group.