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Ghosn leaves Japan 'to escape injustice'
Associated Press, Published on 31/12/2019
» TOKYO: Nissan's former chairman Carlos Ghosn said Tuesday from Lebanon he was not fleeing justice but instead left Japan to avoid "injustice and political persecution" over financial misconduct allegations during his tenure leading the automaker.
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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.
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Trump defends CIA nominee
Associated Press, Published on 07/05/2018
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday defended Gina Haspel, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, dismissing debate over her involvement in a harsh interrogation programme and arguing Democrats want her out because she "is too tough on terror".
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Celebrity Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed among dozens arrested in 'corruption sweep'
Associated Press, Published on 06/11/2017
» RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has arrested dozens of princes, senior military officers, businessmen and top officials, including a well-known royal billionaire with extensive holdings in Western companies, as part of a sweeping purported anti-corruption probe that further cements control in the hands of its young crown prince.
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Trump urges death penalty for New York terrorism
Associated Press, Published on 03/11/2017
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday backed away from his threat to send the suspect in the New York bike path attack to Guantanamo Bay, acknowledging in an early morning tweet that the military judicial process at the Cuban detention centre takes longer than the civilian federal court system.
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Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director
Associated Press, Published on 07/06/2017
» BERLIN -- A civil rights group is asking German authorities to issue an arrest warrant for the recently appointed deputy director of the CIA over claims she oversaw the torture of terrorism suspects 15 years ago.
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14 hostages taken in Philippines city, martial law declared
Associated Press, Published on 24/05/2017
» MANILA -- Muslim extremists abducted a Catholic priest and more than a dozen churchgoers while laying siege to a southern Philippine city overnight, burning buildings, ambushing soldiers and hoisting flags of the Islamic State group, officials said Wednesday.
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Chemical weapons attack latest in litany of Syria atrocities
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2017
» BEIRUT - With its missile strike on Shayrat air base in central Syria, Washington signalled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Syria that drew international outrage last week.
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Show of frustration at Egypt's courts
News, Associated Press, Published on 02/06/2016
» Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif decided she had had enough of Egypt's justice system.
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Myanmar police drag away protesting factory workers
Associated Press, Published on 05/03/2015
» YANGON — Police say they have detained more than a dozen factory workers, who were demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in a protest that follows a crackdown on students outside Myanmar's biggest city.
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