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US Congress struggles to avoid financial shutdown
Associated Press, Published on 19/01/2018
» WASHINGTON: House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he's confident that his GOP-controlled chamber will pass a stopgap government-wide funding bill, even as growing opposition from Senate Democrats made prospects in that chamber increasingly dicey.
Politics and Sean Spicer take centre stage at Emmy Awards
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2017
» NEW YORK: Weeks after leaving his job, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer was onstage at the Emmy Awards on Sunday joking about one of his first -- and more dubious --claims from the press room.
Happiness 'turns dairy cows into cash cows'
Business, Associated Press, Published on 12/07/2017
» SAUK CITY, Wisconsin: Dairy farmers, take note: The key to turning your dairy cow into a cash cow is udder happiness.
UN child sex ring left victims but no arrests
Associated Press, Published on 13/04/2017
» PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jet-setters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.
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.
Philippine police torture rife, AI says
Associated Press, Published on 04/12/2014
» MANILA — Amnesty International said Thursday that five years after the Philippines passed a law criminalizing torture, the practice continues, with an overstretched police force resorting to “shortcuts” to extract confessions from criminal suspects.
Asean gives North Korea a cold shoulder
Associated Press, Published on 30/06/2013
» BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - The Asean regional summit now under way in Brunei is the sort of venue where North Korea has often managed to open up sideline discussions with Seoul and Washington.