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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.
Climate change turns Greenland into strategic, economic hotspot
Associated Press, Published on 23/08/2019
» TASIILAQ, Greenland: From a helicopter, Greenland's brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.
Seoul: North Korea launches 2 short-range ballistic missiles
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2019
» SEOUL: South Korea's military said North Korea conducted its second weapons test in less than a week Wednesday, firing two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast in a move observers said could be aimed at boosting pressure on the United States as the rivals struggle to set up fresh nuclear talks.
Facebook plans own currency
Associated Press, Published on 18/06/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.
Malaysia says revised China deal shows costs were inflated
Associated Press, Published on 15/04/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's prime minister said Monday a Chinese company building a rail link across the Southeast Asian nation will jointly help to manage and operate the network, part of revised deal that will get the stalled project off the ground at a lower cost and ease strained relations.
Pakistan's former PM sentenced to 7 years for corruption
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2018
» ISLAMABAD: An anti-graft tribunal sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, drawing criticism from his party, which said the decision was a "black stain" on the justice system.
Canada now world's largest legal marijuana marketplace
Associated Press, Published on 17/10/2018
» TORONTO: Canada is now the second, and the largest, country with a legal national marijuana marketplace, with sales beginning early on Wednesday in Newfoundland in the east of the country.
New US sanctions on Russia over UK poisonings
Associated Press, Published on 09/08/2018
» WASHINGTON: New sanctions against Russia will be imposed later this month for illegally using a chemical weapon in an attempted assassination of a former spy and his daughter in Britain earlier this year, the United States said.
Sharif in custody as 132 die in Pakistan election violence
Associated Press, Published on 14/07/2018
» LAHORE, Pakistan: Disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in custody on Saturday, a day after the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's troubled election campaign killed more than 130 people, including a candidate.
US pot smuggler who fled to Australia sentenced to 3 years
Associated Press, Published on 12/05/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO: A drug smuggler who prosecutors say brought thousands of kilogrammes of marijuana into the US in the 1980s before fleeing and settling in Australia was sentenced Friday to three years in prison.