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German nurse admits killing 99 patients
Reuters, Published on 30/10/2018
» OLDENBURG, Germany: A German nurse admitted in court on Tuesday to being post-war Germany's deadliest serial killer, murdering 99 patients with lethal injections so that he could play the hero by trying to revive them.
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Singapore hangings spur fresh calls to scrap death penalty
Reuters, Published on 26/10/2018
» SINGAPORE: Singapore on Friday hanged a Malaysian convicted of drug trafficking, the latest in what rights groups said was a series of executions prompting them to renew calls for the wealthy city-state to abolish the death penalty.
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Golden Triangle's drug production expands
Reuters, Published on 07/11/2018
» JAKARTA: Organised crime groups are expanding and diversifying drug production in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle amid fears the region could emerge as a hub for synthetic opioids like fentanyl, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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Oversupply of drugs puts Thai, SE Asian youth at risk, UN says
Reuters, Published on 02/10/2018
» Production and trafficking of illicit drugs have reached unprecedented levels in Southeast Asia's Mekong region and East Asia, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that oversupply increases the risks for younger users.
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Duterte may resign if Marcos Jr becomes VP
Reuters, Published on 16/08/2018
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could step down if the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos succeeds in overturning his 2016 vice presidential election defeat, Mr Duterte's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Philippines' Duterte scraps amnesty, to arrest chief critic
Reuters, Published on 04/09/2018
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew amnesty for an opposition senator involved in a failed coup 15 years ago and ordered his arrest, in what would be the second detention of a lawmaker critical of him.
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Duterte's latest war - on loitering - snares Philippine poor
Reuters, Published on 24/07/2018
» MANILA: Each night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine capital, rounding up slum-dwellers who linger in the streets, or teenagers who play in makeshift computer gaming shops.
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Indian police arrest 18 for repeated rape of 12-year-old girl
Reuters, Published on 17/07/2018
» NEW DELHI: Eighteen men appeared in court in the Indian city of Chennai on Tuesday on charges of repeatedly raping a 12-year girl over a seven-month period.
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Laos torches narcotics stockpile on World Drug Day
Reuters, Published on 26/06/2018
» VIENTIANE: Laos drug officials torched around 40 kilogrammes of heroin and tens of thousands of "yaba" pills Tuesday, a small but significant fraction of the narcotics burned on World Drug Day in a region awash with illegal substances.
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Japan struggles to restore water to flood-hit towns
Reuters, Published on 13/07/2018
» KURASHIKI, Japan: Municipal workers in western Japan struggled on Friday to restore water supplies a week after floods caused by a record downpour killed more than 200 people in the worst such disaster in 36 years.
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