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Verdict due in war crimes trial of Chad ex-dictator
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» DAKAR - A special court in Senegal was due to deliver its verdict Monday in the war crimes trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, bringing a long-awaited reckoning to victims and their families.
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Personal suffering fuels Malaysia trans advocate's fight
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» KUALA LUMPUR - Nisha Ayub has endured virtually everything thrown at Muslim-majority Malaysia's repressed transgender community: contempt, violence, arrest and sexual assault in a prison where she was sent to become a "real man".
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Asia stocks tick up after Yellen hints at rate hike
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» HONG KONG - Asia stocks were broadly up Monday after comments from US Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen that suggested a US interest rate hike was looming.
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Fresh photo of missing Japanese journalist emerges
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» TOKYO - A fresh photo of a Japanese journalist who went missing in Syria last year has emerged online, showing the heavily bearded man holding a sign saying this is his "last chance".
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Iraqi forces enter IS-held Fallujah: commanders
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces entered the Islamic State group bastion of Fallujah from three directions on Monday in a new phase of the operation to recapture the city, commanders said.
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Migrant deal off if no visa-free travel, Turkey warns EU
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» ANTALYA (TURKEY) - Ankara will abandon a deal with the European Union to reduce migrant flows if its citizens are not granted visa-free travel to most of the bloc, Turkey's foreign minister has warned.
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UN chief 'baffled' by S. Korea presidency speculation
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» SEOUL - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denied Monday that his current South Korea visit was testing the waters for an eventual presidential bid, saying his comments on the subject had been exaggerated.
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Turkey offers US joint Syria operation -- without the Kurds
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» ANTALYA (TURKEY) - Turkey is offering to "join forces" with Washington for a special operation inside Syria on condition it doesn't include a Syrian Kurdish militia blacklisted by Ankara but seen as an ally by the US, the foreign minister said.
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Australian killed fighting IS in Syria: reports
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» SYDNEY - An Australian man has been killed in Syria fighting Islamic State jihadists, the country's third national thought to have died alongside Kurdish forces, reports said Monday.
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Parched Laos farmers pray for rain with rockets, phalluses
AFP, Published on 30/05/2016
» HOUA XEING (LAOS) - In central Laos dozens of loud explosions pockmark the sky as men dressed in female clothing wielding large wooden phalluses dance, while others lubricated by the local rice whiskey simply roll in the mud.
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