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3rd deadly quake this month hits southern Philippines
Associated Press, Published on 31/10/2019
» DAVAO, Philippines: The third strong earthquake this month killed one person and injured several others on Thursday, and destroyed buildings that were already damaged by the earlier shakes in the southern Philippine region.
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Dubai eases liquor laws
Associated Press, Published on 24/10/2019
» DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Dubai has loosened its liquor laws to allow tourists to purchase alcohol in state-controlled stores previously only accessible to licence-holding residents, as the United Arab Emirates saw the first drop in alcohol sales by volume in a decade.
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Typhoon leaves 25 dead as Japan launches major rescue
Associated Press, Published on 13/10/2019
» TOKYO: Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan Sunday to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 25 with more than a dozen missing. One woman fell to her death from a rescue helicopter.
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Facebook suspends thousands of apps
Associated Press, Published on 21/09/2019
» Facebook said Friday that it has suspended ``tens of thousands'' of apps made by about 400 developers as part of an investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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At least 2 dead after strong quake in eastern Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 15/07/2019
» JAKARTA: A strong, shallow earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Sunday, damaging homes and killing at least two people, officials said.
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Hanoi seeks Vietnamese suspect’s release in Kim killing
Associated Press, Published on 13/03/2019
» HANOI: Just four days ago, the future for Indonesia's Siti Aisyah looked bleak -- she was two years into her detention in Malaysia and faced a possible death sentence if convicted of killing the half brother of North Korea's leader.
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Trump weighs declaring national emergency
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, facing the prospect within days of the longest US government shutdown in history, was considering declaring a national emergency that would likely escalate a policy dispute with Democrats over his proposed US-Mexico border wall into a court test of presidential power.
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$130 billion divorce: Bezos tweets split
Associated Press, Published on 10/01/2019
» LAS VEGAS: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said he and his wife MacKenzie have decided to divorce after 25 years of marriage.
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Japan passes bill allowing more foreign workers
Associated Press, Published on 08/12/2018
» TOKYO: Japanese lawmakers early Saturday approved government-proposed legislation allowing hundreds of thousands of foreign labourers to live and work in a country that has long resisted accepting outsiders.
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UN finds 486m in Asia still hungry
Associated Press, Published on 02/11/2018
» Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without "inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive" urban planning, United Nations officials said on Friday.
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