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Polish porter who confronted London attacker awarded medal
AFP, Published on 26/09/2023
» LONDON - A Polish man who used a ceremonial pike to confront an Islamist extremist who had fatally stabbed two people in central London in 2019 was awarded a bravery medal on Tuesday.
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Myanmar's civil servant strikes start to bite
AFP, Published on 26/02/2021
» YANGON - Public hospitals are deserted. Government offices left dark. And the trains don't leave the stations.
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US and North Korea resume nuclear talks
Published on 05/10/2019
» STOCKHOLM: The United States and North Korea resumed negotiations Saturday on ending Pyongyang’s nuclear programme after months of stalemate following their leaders’ failed summit in February.
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Disabled Kazakhs fight for rights amid Paralympics push
AFP, Published on 29/03/2019
» ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) - In a gym in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty, Paralympic weightlifter Alina Solodukhina's slight shoulders are feeling the strain under more than 60 kilogrammes of cast iron.
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Yemen president rejects UN peace proposal
AFP, Published on 29/10/2016
» ADEN - Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on Saturday rejected a peace proposal submitted by UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed aimed at ending the war in his impoverished country, a presidency source told AFP.
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Vietnamese furnish ancestors with jets, rollers and mansions
AFP, Published on 17/08/2016
» HANOI - With an average annual income of around $2,000 most Vietnamese would not consider themselves especially wealthy. But in the afterlife you can be a billionaire thanks to paper offerings made by your scions.
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Baby born mid-air on flight to Philippines
AFP, Published on 17/08/2016
» NEW DELHI - A woman gave birth to a premature but healthy baby girl mid-flight while travelling from the United Arab Emirates to the Philippines, forcing the plane to carry out an emergency landing in India.
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Philippine police win first kill bounties for drug traffickers
AFP, Published on 03/06/2016
» MANILA - A Philippine politician said he had given more than US$3,000 to police officers for killing drug traffickers, the first such rewards since president-elect Rodrigo Duterte promoted bounties for slain criminals.
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Zero applicants for Japan plan to promote women at work
AFP, Published on 28/09/2015
» TOKYO - Not one Japanese company applied for a subsidy programme aimed at promoting more women to senior jobs, an official said Monday, an embarrassing blow for Tokyo's push to boost the economy with female workers.
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40 years later: Communism's hollow victory in Vietnam
AFP, Published on 28/04/2015
» HO CHI MINH CITY - Forty years after it won the war, the Communist Party still rules Vietnam with an iron fist. But with crony capitalism, corruption and inequality now rife, many claim its victory was a hollow one.
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