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AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» ANANDPUR (INDIA) - Ram Kishore searched long and hard to find a suitable wife for his son, but his efforts only paid off when electricity finally came to his village in rural north India this year.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's government faced fresh allegations of trampling rights on Monday after the leader of a massive demonstration last year calling for the premier's ouster over a graft scandal said she was prevented going abroad to accept an award.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» PADUCAH (UNITED STATES) - No Democratic presidential candidate has won Kentucky since 1980 except Hillary Clinton's husband Bill, but she is treating the state as an opportunity to appeal to a demographic that has consistently snubbed her: working-class white men.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» THE HAGUE - Dutch electronics giant Philips announced Monday it would float 25 percent of its shares in a highly-anticipated IPO set for May 27 which could raise almost one billion euros.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» NEW YORK - Late pop icon Prince was remembered in a private ceremony at his church, with his family looking to hold a public event in August.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» MANILA - Islamist extremists in the Philippines who last month beheaded a Canadian man say they will kill another Western hostage if a multi-million dollar ransom is not paid within four weeks.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» TAIPEI - A group of Taiwanese fraud suspects deported from Malaysia to China have confessed and will be tried on the mainland, according to Chinese authorities, despite an angry Taipei demanding they face justice at home.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong trailblazer Chan Yuen-ting became the first woman coach to take a men's football team to a top-flight title thanks to the toughness that earned her the nickname "beefball" and a teenage crush on David Beckham.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» KABUL - Afghanistan's capital was under lockdown Monday as thousands of minority Shiite Hazaras launched protests over a multi-million-dollar power transmission line, in what could snowball into a political crisis for the beleaguered government.
AFP, Published on 16/05/2016
» LONDON - French oil and gas company Total officially launched a project off Britain's remote Shetland Islands on Monday, hailed by London as a "vote of confidence" in the flagging Scottish North Sea oil and gas industry.