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Election report: Venezuela vote 'probably rigged'
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» CARACAS - The number of Venezuelans who participated in the election for an all-powerful constituent assembly was tampered with - off by at least 1 million votes - in an official count, the head of a voting technology company asserted Wednesday, a finding certain to sow further discord over the super-body that has generated months of nationwide protests.
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Trump backs major US immigration changes
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday embraced legislation from two Republican senators that would place new limits on legal immigration and seek to create an system based more on merit and skills than family ties.
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US moves to have N.Korea suspended from Asia forum
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» MANILA -- Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, US and Philippine officials said.
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Australian gets 18 months in jail for Cambodia surrogacy
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» PHNOM PENH -- A Cambodian court has sentenced an Australian woman to one and a half years in prison for providing commercial surrogacy services in the country.
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Indonesia deports Chinese, Taiwanese scam suspects
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» JAKARTA -- Indonesia has deported more than 140 Chinese and Taiwanese suspects to China, where they are wanted for impersonating police and blackmailing businessmen and politicians in a scam said to have earned several hundred million dollars.
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N.Korean missile tests spook neighbours, but 'what to do?'
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» YOKOSUKA, Japan -- North Korea's flurry of missile launches -- 20 of them just in the past year -- is a new and alarming fact of life for Japan and its other neighbours.
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Malaysia central bank urged to reopen probe
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian opposition lawmakers urged the central bank Thursday to reopen its investigation into indebted state investment fund 1MDB that is being probed in several countries for money laundering and implicating Prime Minister Najib Razak.
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BMW's soaring profit fuelled by new 5-Series sedan
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» FRANKFURT, Germany -- German luxury automaker BMW says net profit rose 14% in the second quarter as earnings were boosted by the new version of the 5-Series sedan.
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IS dream turns to nightmare for Indonesian family
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» AIN ISSA, Syria -- The 17-year old Indonesian girl made a persuasive case to her family: lured by what she had read online, she told her parents, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins they should all move to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
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Vietnam regrets Germany's comments on kidnapping
Associated Press, Published on 03/08/2017
» HANOI -- Vietnam says it regrets comments by the German Foreign Ministry accusing Vietnamese intelligence services of kidnapping a former Vietnamese oil executive who's wanted back home on embezzlement charges.
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