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New Zimbabwe leader pledges economic revival
Published on 24/11/2017
» HARARE: Zimbabwe's new president on Friday promised elections will be held next year as scheduled and outlined a broad vision for restoring economic and financial stability.
155 dead in Egypt mosque attack
Published on 24/11/2017
» CAIRO: Islamist militants sprayed gunfire and exploded bombs at a crowded Sufi mosque near Egypt’s Sinai coast on Friday, killing at least 155 people and wounding dozens more, state news media said.
Pakistan frees cleric blamed for Mumbai massacre
Published on 24/11/2017
» ISLAMABAD: The Muslim cleric whom India holds responsible for the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai has been set free by a court in Pakistan.
Singapore stocks outperform SE Asian peers
Published on 24/11/2017
» Singapore shares touched a two-and-half-year closing high on Friday, as industrial output in October climbed for a fifteenth straight month, while Philippine and Vietnam stocks reversed losses from earlier in the day to end higher.
The 'Crocodile' to be sworn in as Zimbabwe president
Reuters, Published on 24/11/2017
» HARARE: Emmerson Mnangagwa will cap a stunning political comeback on Friday when he is sworn in as Zimbabwe's president, bringing the final curtain down on the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe.
Appeals court more than doubles Pistorius sentence
Associated Press, Published on 24/11/2017
» JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Supreme Court increased Oscar Pistorius' murder sentence on Friday to 13 years and five months after the state argued that his original sentence of six years was "shockingly lenient".
Virtual reality boom brings robots, cyber castles to China
Published on 24/11/2017
» GUIYANG, China: Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces.
Vietnam prosecutes bank officials
Reuters, Published on 24/11/2017
» HANOI: Vietnam has prosecuted five former officials of the unlisted Dong A Bank for violating rules that "lead to serious consequences", police said on Friday, part of a widening investigation involving the Ho Chi Minh City-based lender.
Building collapses near Mumbai, dozen people trapped
Associated Press, Published on 24/11/2017
» MUMBAI: A fire official says a portion of a three-storey building has collapsed on the outskirts of India's financial capital of Mumbai and more than a dozen people feared trapped in the rubble.
Duterte ditches peace process with Maoist rebels
Reuters, Published on 24/11/2017
» MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has terminated the on-again, off-again peace talks with Maoist-led rebels as hostilities have continued despite the negotiations, the president's spokesman said on Friday.