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US diplomacy in disarray as Trump-Kim summit looms
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» WASHINGTON - As Donald Trump prepares to make a historic gamble by meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, the US diplomatic corps is in disarray after the president's brutal sacking of his secretary of state.
Black holes dissolving like aspirin: How Hawking changed physics
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» PARIS - When Stephen Hawking postulated in the mid-1970s that black holes leak radiation, slowly dissolving like aspirin in a glass of water, he overturned a core tenet of the Universe.
British firm Prudential to split into two
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» LONDON - British financial services giant Prudential said Wednesday that it will split into two separate firms, in order to focus on strategic priorities in the various regions in which it operates.
Tears at Hawking's college as Cambridge mourns
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» CAMBRIDGE (UNITED KINGDOM) - Tears flowed at Stephen Hawking's Cambridge University college as former students, fellow academics and admirers came to pay tribute to the world-famous physicist who died on Wednesday.
'Never again!': US students stage walkout against gun violence
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» WASHINGTON - Students across the United States walked out of classes on Wednesday in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the shooting deaths last month at a Florida high school.
UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning
Associated Press, Published on 14/03/2018
» LONDON: Britain announced Wednesday it will expel almost two dozen Russian diplomats, sever high-level bilateral contacts with Moscow and take both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy, plunging UK-Russian relations into their deepest freeze since the Cold War.
Qatari man, Thai woman arrested for gold robbery
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 14/03/2018
» CHON BURI: A Qatari national and a Thai woman have been apprehended in Bang Lamung district for allegedly robbing a gold shop before making off with jewellery worth around 3 million baht.
Indonesian bitcoin investors set to outnumber stock participants
Published on 14/03/2018
» The biggest Indonesian platform to buy and sell digital currency may soon have more members than the nation’s century-old stock exchange.
Turkey ramps up assault on Kurdish enclave in Syria
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» BEIRUT - Turkey turned up the heat on Syria's Afrin Wednesday, launching deadly strikes on Damascus loyalists deployed around the Kurdish enclave and closing in on its main city.
Kremlin rejects 'unfounded accusations', ultimatums over poisoning row
AFP, Published on 14/03/2018
» MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Wednesday rejected what he called Britain's "unfounded accusations" and "ultimatums" over the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.