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At least four dead as twin blasts hit Kabul wrestling club
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» KABUL - A suicide attack on a Kabul wrestling club that killed at least four people Wednesday was followed by a second blast as rescuers gathered nearby, police said, in the latest assault on the Afghan capital.
Calls mount to avert 'massacre' in Syria's Idlib
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» BEIRUT - International calls mounted Wednesday to avoid a "massacre" by regime forces in Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib, two days before a summit between key powers backing the government and opposition.
India's top court expected to rule on gay sex
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court is likely on Thursday to deliver an eagerly awaited judgement on colonial-era legislation criminalising homosexuality, lawyers said.
Twitter not based on 'political ideology,' CEO tells lawmakers
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» WASHINGTON - Twitter does not operate on the basis of "political ideology," chief executive Jack Dorsey said Wednesday, rejecting claims of bias against conservatives.
Indonesian markets hammered by emerging-market contagion
Bloomberg, Published on 05/09/2018
» Asia’s fifth-biggest economy saw its stock market walloped on Wednesday as investors girded for the possibility of more interest-rate hikes to safeguard Indonesia’s rupiah, which has fallen to its weakest since 1998.
Aceh region bans unmarried couples at same table in cafes
AP, Published on 05/09/2018
» BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: A district in Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province has banned unmarried couples from sitting at the same table in restaurants, cafes or coffee shops, an official said Wednesday.
Khalilzad: the blunt veteran leading US peace efforts in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» KABUL - Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US diplomat tasked with leading efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, is a blunt negotiator with a history of hawkish foreign policy views.
Head-turning violence helps tiny songbirds kill big prey: study
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» PARIS - They may be small and striking, but shrikes are songbirds known for viciously impaling their victims with a razor-sharp bill although experts have long wondered about their ability to subdue much larger prey.
National artist Manrat dies of natural causes
Online Reporters, Published on 05/09/2018
» National artist Manrat Srikaranonda has died of natural causes. He was 90.
Revolution and financial crisis will wrack US says Bannon
AFP, Published on 05/09/2018
» VENICE - America is heading for a revolution which will "cut like a scythe through grass", Donald Trump's former chief advisor Steve Bannon predicts in a revealing new film.